Turing pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli’s Twitter account appears to have been hacked

THE “world’s most hated man” has 99 problems and one of them is now his online security. The drug boss has had his Twitter hacked.

‘I am so god damn ugly’

MARTIN Shkreli has 99 problems and one of them is now his internet security.

The pharmaceuticals boss, who was arrested on Friday for securities fraud and was already the world’s “most hated man”, has apparently had his Twitter account hacked.

Shkreli, as of Monday morning, had not deleted seven tweets on his account. One of the tweets declared he had aids and two others labelled him “a God” and “so God damn ugly”.

“Anyone want free money?” another tweet from his account read. “Willing to donate hundreds of thousands to charities before I go to prison.”

Shkreli’s hacked account tweeted that he was “a God”.

Anyone want free money? Willing to donate hundreds of thousands to charities before I go to prison...

— Martin The God (@MartinShkreli) December 20, 2015

I'm so god damn ugly... I gotta use okcupid :/ Fuck my life

— Martin The God (@MartinShkreli) December 20, 2015

Hackers also generously offered to give away Shkreli’s prized $US2 million, one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang album, an item he splurged on just last month despite being accused of reckless greed.

Giving away WUTANG album RT for a chance to win

— Martin The God (@MartinShkreli) December 20, 2015

The hacking tops off a bad year for the 32-year-old. He was labelled “the greediest person of all time”, a “morally bankrupt sociopath” and “America’s most hated man” after he hiked up the price of lifesaving HIV pill Daraprim from $25 to a mind-boggling $1050.

He was later undercut by the competition and forced to explain his greed to the public.

Last week he was hauled from his Manhattan apartment by police and charged with cheating investors out of $US11 million and illegally using assets from a biotechnology firm he started in 2011 to pay debts from unrelated business dealings.

He was freed on $US5 million bail and tweeted: “Glad to be home. Thanks for the support.” That was the last tweet he made before his account was taken over.

Martin Shkreli being driven away from his Manhattan apartment. Picture: Craig Ruttle/AP

Shkreli was a former child prodigy who skipped a number of grades in high school and made a name for himself by setting up hedge funds. He made headlines around the world when the Daraprim scandal broke, but it wasn’t the first time he’s made a questionable business decision.

A year earlier, Shkreli did the exact same thing with a drug used to treat painful and incurable children’s kidney disease.

According to documents tabled in court, the young CEO was also accused of harassing a former employer’s family over money owed to him.

One message to the wife of an ex-employee read: “How do you sleep at night? Your husband stole millions from me,” according to CNBC.

Shkreli also reportedly sent the ex-employee’s son a Facebook friend request “Because I want you to know about how your dad betrayed me. He stole $3 million from me.”

For his greed, Shkreli was also at times aware of how bad his behaviour looked. He even lowered the price of one of his drugs after backlash from the public.

Martin Shkreli flanked by cameras last week. Picture: Seth Wenig/AP

“There were mistakes made with respect to helping people understand why we took (the action to raise the price of Daraprim), I think that it makes sense to lower the price in response to the anger that was felt by people,” he told the Guardian.

“Our first and primary stakeholder is patients. There’s no doubt about that. I can see how it looks greedy, but I think there’s a lot of altruistic properties to it,” he said.

On Twitter, users celebrating his hacking.

“Hacked, but nobody deserves it more,” one user wrote. “Karma’s awesome,” another wrote.

Shkreli resigned as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals last week after his arrest.