{"rewrite":{"id":"r_df61b7b44a55908163145711","clusterId":"c_9e78e093b36c9a48808b5b7c","slug":"kof-for-girls-official-x-account-appears-hijacked-image-posts-deleted","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"KOF for GIRLS Official X Account Appears Hijacked, Image Posts Deleted","summary":"The official X account of THE KING OF FIGHTERS for GIRLS, the Victor Entertainment Games otome title based on SNK's fighting series, appears to have been hijacked. Users who followed the account began receiving notifications from an unfamiliar account; its icon, name, and ID now belong to one claiming to be a therapist. The previous ID returns \"This account doesn't exist.\" Some maintenance posts remain, but posts with videos or images are gone. The game's service ended on March 31, 2021.","whyItMatters":"A service that shut down years ago can still lose the archive fans treated as its record, and the account's takeover shows nothing protects a dormant official channel once the operator stops watching it.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe account now carries a therapist\u0026#39;s name and icon, and searching the old ID returns nothing. What survives is partial: maintenance notices are still up, while every post that carried a video or an image has been removed.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE KING OF FIGHTERS for GIRLS began distribution on November 8, 2019, with Victor Entertainment Games operating it. It cast the player as manager of the fighters and ran on romance and friendship. The service ended on March 31, 2021.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowers noticed the change through notifications from an account they did not recognize, then flagged the takeover. Some responded with anger at the loss of posts they had kept as a record of the game.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"KOF for GIRLS ended service on March 31, 2021, yet its X account stayed up as an archive. Losing that handle means Victor Entertainment Games no longer controls the record fans were still reading.","twitterPost":"KOF for GIRLS shut down in 2021. Its X account kept serving as the game's archive, and that archive is what the hijacking erased.","threadsPost":"KOF for GIRLS ended service on March 31, 2021, so the account had no game left to promote. It was still the place fans went for the old posts, and the hijacking took the image and video posts that made up that record.","newsletterBlurb":"The official X account for THE KING OF FIGHTERS for GIRLS appears to have been taken over. It now presents as a therapist's account, the previous ID returns no results, and posts containing images or videos have been deleted. The otome title, operated by Victor Entertainment Games, ended service on March 31, 2021.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/21/173909.html\",\"title\":\"『KOF』-based smartphone game's official X account appears to be hijacked-5.5 years after service ended, many past posts deleted, fans angry: \\\"Our memories have been lost\\\"\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4680,"outputTokens":662,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792589845,"createdAt":"2026-10-21T13:33:35.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-21T13:36:11.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T13:36:11.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_9e78e093b36c9a48808b5b7c","canonicalTitle":"「思い出が失われた」『KOF』原作のスマホゲーム公式Xが乗っ取り被害か―サ終から5年半、過去の投稿多数消えファン怒り","representativeArticleId":"a_858dfe6d013ca5668c8a5576","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"The King of Fighters\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-21T12:15:43.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-21T12:15:43.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T13:36:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/10/21/173909.html","title":"「思い出が失われた」『KOF』原作のスマホゲーム公式Xが乗っ取り被害か―サ終から5年半、過去の投稿多数消えファン怒り"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["The King of Fighters"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}