Director Lu Chuan's Account Hacked Incident Causes Stir

TapTechNews July 18th news, on July 16th, a screenshot went viral showing director Lu Chuan posting that Catch the Doll is a low-quality strongly alkaline comedy, causing a stir. Later, Lu Chuan's side claimed that the account was hacked.

@Ape Power Pan Entertainment Industry posted: Regarding Director Lu's Toutiao platform account being hacked and non-personal published content appearing, the company team has now contacted the platform, retrieved the account, and deleted all relevant information that does not belong to the director's release. Please do not further spread! Hereby, on behalf of the company team and the director, we express deep apologies to the project parties involved in the false content. Wish the box office of colleagues' works in the summer season a great success and wish the prosperity of Chinese cinema.

Lu Chuan then forwarded and responded: Lao Shen is a buddy, and Xiao Shi is one of the male leads in my last film, like a younger brother. Every film has the efforts and attitude of the main creators and deserves respect. Wish the film a great success.

TapTechNews noticed that on the evening of July 17th, the Toutiao Security Center posted that recently, the platform noticed that there were user feedbacks about Toutiao accounts being hacked and content not being published by the users themselves. After querying the background logs, it was confirmed that the content published by the user Filmmaker Lu Chuan at 11:13 on July 16, 2024, has been deleted by the user himself, and the information of his login mobile device, publishing mobile device, and deleting mobile device is all the same.

Subsequently, this incident topped the Weibo hot search list.