Several BBC Twitter accounts, including its weather, Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds were hijacked by a group calling itself Syrian Electronic Army earlier.
A series of tweets about fake weather conditions in Middle Eastern countries began appearing on Thursday afternoon.
The BBC said that it now has control of all three accounts and all inappropriate content has been deleted.
The attacks began in the early afternoon on 21 March.
The BBC weather Twitter feed, which has 60,000 followers, was among those affected.
The attacks on the BBC are the latest in a series of hacks on high-profile Twitter accounts.
Last month Burger King and Chrysler saw their Twitter feeds hijacked while a quarter of a million Twitter users had their passwords stolen.
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