{"id":420,"date":"2011-07-04T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=420"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:52:47","slug":"how-amy-winehouse-site-got-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/facebook-hackers\/how-amy-winehouse-site-got-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amy Winehouse Site got hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>hacking <\/strong>group vocation itself SwagSec has out of order into the official website of songster Amy Winehouse and deface it by posting an expletive-filled message and an image of the rapper Lil&#8217; B.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking gang, which according to its Twitter feed claims to be based in South Africa, describe the troubled singer as a<em><strong> &#8220;Racist crack head devil b****&#8221; and say it plans to &#8220;take back the Internet from the white devil.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What charmers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-421\" title=\"winehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/winehouse.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the occasion of writing,<strong> Amy Wine house\u2019s <\/strong>administrator website is redirect to her Face book page. Most probably her website administrators are keen to take the site offline until they are sure that it is now correctly tenable. It\u2019s additional bad news for the beehive-wearing Winehouse, who previous this month cancelled future tour date after a devastating reply presentation in Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-422\" title=\"winehouse-website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/winehouse-website.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/winehouse-website.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/winehouse-website-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 85vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We contain to be grateful, of route, that the assault appears to have been more akin to mindless graffiti, than an effort to plant malware on a popular singer&#8217;s internet site. The merely small solace for Amy Winehouse is that she&#8217;s not the first singer to have suffered from website hackers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, in 2009, Paul McCartney&#8217;s official website had malicious code planted on it by hackers which downloaded code to spy on users as they logged into their online bank financial records. Possibly the most bizarre story of a musician having his website &#8220;<strong>hacked<\/strong>&#8220;, however, is that of Van Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-423\" title=\"van-morrison-announcement1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/van-morrison-announcement1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/van-morrison-announcement1.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/van-morrison-announcement1-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 85vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2009, it was widely report that <strong>Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison<\/strong> had had a child with American record producer Gigi Lee, after a statement announcing the birth of George Ivan Morrison III was published on the music legend&#8217;s website. You would wait for that this wasn&#8217;t news welcomed by Van Morrison&#8217;s wife Michelle. And the singer quickly claimed that the announcement was bogus and the result of hackers breaking into his website.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a tall story at the time to blame the announcement conveniently on hackers, and can be considered even more so if you read this deeper investigation by the Mail. Regardless of Van Morrison&#8217;s possibly tangled love life, and Amy Wine house\u2019s battles with addiction, there&#8217;s a message for all of us in the latest website hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacking group vocation itself SwagSec has out of order into the official website of songster Amy Winehouse and deface it by posting an expletive-filled message and an image of the rapper Lil&#8217; B. The hacking gang, which according to its Twitter feed claims to be based in South Africa, describe the troubled singer as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/facebook-hackers\/how-amy-winehouse-site-got-hacked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Amy Winehouse Site got hacked&#8221;<\/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":[3,12,6],"tags":[99,100],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook-hackers","category-hijack","category-twitter-haoxs","tag-amy-winehouse","tag-irish-singer-songwriter-van-morrison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}