# Hacker Takes Over Waze's X Account, Posts Claim of November 26 Deactivation > A hacker seized Waze's X account and posted that it would be deactivated on November 26, while the company's navigation platform and user data stayed untouched. - Published: 2026-11-14T09:13:41+00:00 - Section: Incidents - Author: News Desk - URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-14/waze-x-account-hacked - Source: [Autoevolution](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/waze-x-account-hacked-nobody-seems-to-care-though-278411.html) ## Key takeaways - A hacker took control of Waze's official X account and posted that the account would be deactivated on November 26. - The hacker wrote 'I stole the logins' and said the social media manager was locked out. - Waze's X account has 247K followers, and the hacker's original post drew only 6 replies. - The breach covered only the X account, not the navigation app, and no user data was exposed. A hacker took control of [Waze](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00005l1/waze)'s official X account and posted that the account would be deactivated on November 26, [Autoevolution](https://www.autoevolution.com/news/waze-x-account-hacked-nobody-seems-to-care-though-278411.html) reported on November 14, 2026. The first post went live roughly 12 hours before the report, and the messages remained online at the time of writing. ## How the Waze X Account Was Taken Over The pinned message read, "Effective 11/26, Waze will deactivate this account," and the same post added, "I stole the logins." The profile description was changed to say, "The social media manager is locked out." Three further posts followed, the most recent going live about 7 hours before the report. Autoevolution wrote that Waze, the Google-owned company behind the traffic navigation app, will regain control of the handle in the coming hours. The hacker acknowledged the limits of the access in a follow-up post: "Who got the keys to a global brand account now?" The incident exposed only the social media account. The X account is not connected to the navigation app, and no user data is exposed, according to the report. Engagement was thin: the original message received 6 replies, a follow-up received 2, and the most recent post drew 11 likes from an account with 247K followers. ## Waze's Scale and Earlier Security Record Waze is a crowdsourced GPS navigation app owned by Google since 2013, according to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), with hundreds of millions of users worldwide and a revenue estimate of $250 million-$500 million. The same records list total funding of $67.1 million across four rounds, the last a $50,000 grant in September 2020. A more serious vulnerability surfaced in 2020, when a security engineer found a flaw that let him track users on the map and see where they were going. The engineer accessed the ID tied to other users through a feature called Moods, and because the app did not change a user's ID over time, a known ID could be followed on the map. The flaw was privately reported to Waze and patched before the details were made public. ## Waze's Recent Product Rollouts Waze added a feature letting users change the start and end points of a route, first available to some users in September and rolling out broadly, Geektime reported on November 10, 2026. On November 5, 2026, Autoevolution reported that Garmin is exploring sharing cyclist location data with Waze to alert drivers to cyclists on the road. An APK teardown of Garmin Connect 5.31, covered by Android Authority on November 4, 2026, revealed a feature that could share a cyclist's LiveTrack location with Waze. ## What Happens to the Waze Account Waze is expected to retake the X handle in the hours after the report, and the hacker's claimed November 26 deactivation is not due to take place. ## Companies in this story - [Waze company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00005l1/waze) · website: http://waze.com --- News for Agent · https://newsforagent.com/llms.txt