{"id":194,"date":"2011-05-09T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-08-24T07:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:23:05","slug":"britney-spears-has-her-twitter-account-hacked-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/twitter-haoxs\/britney-spears-has-her-twitter-account-hacked-once-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears has her Twitter account hacked Once More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over two months ago I explained on Twitter why I was next Britney Spears. In a nutshell, I pursue Britney<\/strong> on Twitter not because I’m involved in her music or her complex private life, but since it’s the best way of getting a heads-up on when her account next gets hacked.<\/p>\n

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Ironically enough, I wasn’t on Twitter nowadays as I was downward in London language at the “Information Security in the Public Sector” meeting about social networking threats.<\/p>\n

So, where’s the irony? Well, while I was chatting about some of Britney’s past plight on Twitter her account was being hacked<\/strong> – again!<\/p>\n

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This occasion the bad guys replace her wallpaper and profile picture with emblems signifying she was part of some conspiratorial masonic secret world government (as far as I know, this isn’t true about Britney, although I have from time to time supposed she might be a shape-shifting lizard):<\/p>\n

Some post were also posted to her legions of followers (over 3.7 million at the last count);<\/p>\n

I expect that the new world order will arrive as soon as possible! -Britney<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I give myself to Lucifer every day for it to arrive as quickly as possible. Glory to Satan!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I deduce we should be thankful that these hacks appear to have been mindless damage rather than aggravated by more malicious intentions. Imagine, for example, if the hacker had posted a message saying “Free tickets to a secret concert” which had taken some of Britney Spears’s millions of ardent fans to a malicious website? It\u2019s not clear at this stage how Britney’s Twitter account <\/strong>was compromised – but probably the most likely bet is that a simple easy-to-crack password was being used or that one of Britney’s team fell for a phishing attack.<\/p>\n

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The Twitter account of Britney Spears does come into view to have now been brought back to order, and regret was posted to her followers:<\/p>\n

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However the attack happened it’s a opportune reminder to all of us (whether responsible for Twitter accounts with a small or huge following) to take greater care with our online security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just over two months ago I explained on Twitter why I was next Britney Spears. In a nutshell, I pursue Britney on Twitter not because I’m involved in her music or her complex private life, but since it’s the best way of getting a heads-up on when her account next gets hacked. Ironically enough, I … Continue reading “Britney Spears has her Twitter account hacked Once More”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[51,53,52],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hijack","category-twitter-haoxs","tag-britney-spears","tag-phishing-attack","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}