Danica Davidson
January 29, 2025 
If you thought VIZ Media’s X (formerly Twitter) handle was tweeting some weird things, you’re not alone. Someone has hacked the company’s account, and VIZ is working on getting this fixed. The company, which releases both manga and anime, has publicly confirmed the hack.
If you check out the VIZ handle now, there are tweets from “Safety” and “Engineering,” some of them writing pro-X materials and stuff on Grok, X’s AI assistant. The last tweet from the company is about their new manga Firefly Wedding.
There had previously been posts about “$VIZ” Digital Token, referencing $VIZ token. $VIZ token and VIZ Media might share part of a name, but they are two entirely different things. Those posts have been successfully removed.
VIZ Media did not give an indication on when it thinks its X issue will be resolved. So as long as VIZ is tweeting odd things, you can safely assume the hacking issue hasn’t been fixed yet.
This comes shortly after news of Crunchyroll admitting that some login credentials of theirs had made their way online. Crunchyroll says it’s fixed that problem.
VIZ Media gave this description for itself:
An international authority on manga for more than three decades, VIZ Media is leading the way in what’s now, new and next. Reaching one in four millennials and half of all GenZ manga readers, VIZ is at the forefront of America’s Japanese pop-culture phenomenon, which today dominates multiple industries from publishing and animation to film and gaming.
VIZ is proud to be the #1 destination for manga in America and home to some of the most prestigious anime brands driving the industry. Combined with a market share footprint larger than household names collectively, VIZ has pivoted from a localization company to a market leading pop culture publisher and producer.
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
