1D's Louis Tomlinson 'sorry' to fans over Twitter hack

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  • Author, Emma Brant
  • Role, Newsbeat reporter

One Direction star Louis Tomlinson has said "sorry" to his fans after a mysterious message appeared on his Twitter account.

The 21-year-old was fast asleep when someone hacked into his tweets and posted the abuse to his 14 million followers.

Many of his fans and friends were also unfollowed and deleted from his lists.

The singer tweeted on Wednesday: "Got woke up to find out I got hacked.

"Working on re-following people now sorryyyyy Big loveeee!!"

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Image caption, One Direction flew to Tokyo earlier this month to publicise their film

It has been a week of hacks for One Direction as their album was leaked online on Monday, a week ahead of schedule.

The band had flown into Los Angeles from the UK on Tuesday night, where member Niall Horan, 20, was knocked over by paparazzi photographers at LAX airport.

Niall tweeted: "I hate the paps!! Just got dragged to the floor by some idiot with a camera ! could have seen the fans as well, but they messed it all up!'

The group were in the US to pre-record a performance on X Factor USA.

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