The Twitter account belonging to Bank of Melbourne was taken over by a cybercriminal with the purpose of spreading phishing links to their followers.
Social media accounts seem to have become primary targets for many hackers, as they keep taking over official ones in the attempt to infect the computers of those wh... |
20 September 2011
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Fox News has alerted the Secret Service about messages posted by hackers from one of its accounts and alleging that President Obama was assassinated.The incident occurred yesterday, on the 4th of July, and involved Fox's @foxnewspolitics account being hijacked by unidentified individuals."@BarackObama shot twice... |
5 July 2011
08:43 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian reported yesterday that her Twitter and email accounts were hijacked by hackers, although she was able to regain control of them before any were abused.The American TV celebrity reported on Twitter that she cannot login to her account anymore from her computer and asked for help to recover the password... |
24 February 2011
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After having launched their official Twitter page only last week, North Korea’s account was banned in South Korea because it reportedly contained illegal data, according to Seoul representatives.Considering the official North Korea website is Uriminzokkiri.com, when a Twitter account called @uriminzok was crea... |
20 August 2010
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Probably inspired by Michael Jackson's recent and unfortunate death, tasteless hackers thought it would be fun to falsely announce the demise of other celebrities as well. Such was the case with Britney Spears, P Diddy, or Ellen DeGeneres, whose Twitter feeds were hijacked to display fake digital obituaries. Br... |
30 June 2009
04:36 GMT |
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College Hill TV series star Dorion Standberry woke up to a really bad Monday, after an unknown hacker broke into his email during the night and started sharing its contents with all of the actor's followers on Twitter. Several other celebrities got caught in the middle and had their phone numbers, which were sto... |
23 June 2009
09:13 GMT |
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An unknown attacker hacked into the Twitter account of 16-year old Miley Cyrus, the lead actress in acclaimed Disney TV series Hannah Montana. The Twitter staff were forced to temporarily suspend it after several offensive messages had been posted in the name of the teen celebrity. Miley Cyrus is the daughter of cou... |
18 February 2009
05:18 GMT |
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Since December, American rapper Kanye West has been the target of several hack and online impersonation attacks. The singer's Gmail and MySpace accounts have been compromised, while fake Twitter and Skype accounts have been set up in his e-mail. Kanye West has posted on his official blog that he's had it wi... |
27 January 2009
07:57 GMT |
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