14 DAY TRIAL // Another celebrity has joined the ranks of those who have fallen victim to hackers. This time it's the famous singer and songwriter Kesha, her Twitter account being taken over by an individual who wanted to have some fun.
Well, as in most cases when celebrities are involved, it’s not really hacking, because Twitter accounts cannot be hacked that easily. It’s more like guessing the password that protects the account.
Fortunately for Kesha, the hacker didn’t cause any damage. He simply made a tweet about the upcoming single, ZDNet reports.
“Single out in a couple hours. Ugh so [expletive]-in stressful… wish I could stay on da beach forever,” the one that overtook the account wrote.
Shortly after that tweet, she regained her account and made a post in which she admitted her account was hacked. The fake message was deleted.
“animals!! i love u! i got hacked. single is not out YET. promissse you'll be the first to know!xx” Kesha wrote.
Of course, singers and movie starts don’t have time to read the articles of security enthusiasts that cover best practices, strong passwords and other similar topics. On the other hand, with so many celebrities already being hacked, it’s surprising that they don’t at least try to be more cautious.
As mentioned before, Twitter and email accounts cannot be really hacked. These so-called celebrity hackers rely either on guesswork or on social engineering.
In the former case, as practice proved before, birth dates, names of life partners and pet names, all widely available on social media websites, are often used as passwords, making the task an easy one for the ill-doer.
Also, in many situations, the celebrities’ friends are the ones that take over accounts to publish data all over the Internet.
As what better way is there to tweet on someone’s behalf than by walking to their computer (or phone), logging in to the account (which probably connects automatically because of the remember password feature), and simply typing what you want.