{"id":904,"date":"2013-02-15T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/?p=904"},"modified":"2017-08-23T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:14:34","slug":"was-alicia-keys-hacked-or-is-she-cheating-on-blackberry-with-iphone-this-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/celebrity-scam\/was-alicia-keys-hacked-or-is-she-cheating-on-blackberry-with-iphone-this-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Alicia Keys hacked, or is she cheating on BlackBerry with iPhone this Valentine\u2019s Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">BlackBerry recently surprised the tech industry when they announced at their major launch event on January 30 the appointment of musician, Alicia Keys, as the Global Creative Director.<\/p>\n<p>And since then Keys has been pimping BlackBerry\u2019s new smartphone model, Z10, tweeting from it since launch. But is there a secret that Keys has been keeping? An extra-cellular affair with the iPhone?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-905\" title=\"Alice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the BlackBerry launch, Keys told the audience about her on-again\/off-again love affair with BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had been lured away from BlackBerry by \u201chotter, sexier phones, something with more bling\u201d in the past, but now declaring that she and Blackberry were \u201cexclusively dating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So it was a bit of a surprise when a tweet from her account went out to her 11 million followers on February 11 \u2013 just days after the BlackBerry launch \u2013 sent not from her exclusive BlackBerry, but from her ex, the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Started from the bottom now were here!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-906\" title=\"alicia-keys-hack-tweet-final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/alicia-keys-hack-tweet-final-300x58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/alicia-keys-hack-tweet-final-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/alicia-keys-hack-tweet-final.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later the same day, Keys sent out a tweet stating that the previous tweet quoting lyrics from recording artist, Drake, had not come from her, but likely a hacker. (But don\u2019t be offended \u2013 she still likes Drake.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the h*ll?!!!! Looks like I\u2019ve been hacked\u2026 I like @Drake but that wasn\u2019t my tweet \ud83d\ude41 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-907\" title=\"alicia-keys-iphone-tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/alicia-keys-iphone-tweet-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/alicia-keys-iphone-tweet-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/alicia-keys-iphone-tweet.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t explain this tweet pic posted a day before from her account showing the musician looking radiant in her dressing room at the Grammys with not just one, but two, of her exes in reach \u2013 iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we at Naked Security have seen our fair share of <strong>hacked<\/strong> Twitter accounts of celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Britney Spears \u2013 and this doesn\u2019t quite smell the same.<\/p>\n<p>Would a hacker that has gone through the trouble of hacking an account of such a well-known figure with access to *11 million followers* really only send one tweet with just a song lyric?<\/p>\n<p>This story reminds us of a previous incident when Kim Kardashian claimed her Twitter account was hacked after having trouble logging in to Twitter from her home computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry recently surprised the tech industry when they announced at their major launch event on January 30 the appointment of musician, Alicia Keys, as the Global Creative Director. And since then Keys has been pimping BlackBerry\u2019s new smartphone model, Z10, tweeting from it since launch. But is there a secret that Keys has been keeping? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/celebrity-scam\/was-alicia-keys-hacked-or-is-she-cheating-on-blackberry-with-iphone-this-valentines-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was Alicia Keys hacked, or is she cheating on BlackBerry with iPhone this Valentine\u2019s Day?&#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":[132],"tags":[148,192],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-scam","tag-alice","tag-hackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigerianspam.com\/Who-got-scammed-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}