March 2nd, 2012 § § permalink
Last night during BBCs’ Question Time, a tweet appeared from Boris Johnsons’ @MayorOfLondon account…
I love David Starkey. Wish he was my uncle. Few things better than #qt, wineand a good out shout at the TV.
source
…and subsequently, quickly deleted. Probably because Starkey was being rather batshit, boarish, rude and generally being a cunt. The BBC got what they were after from the cunt-chair that evening, then.
This morning a Boris backer tells me it wasn’t Boris/whoever does the MayorOfLondon tweets. He’d been probably been hacked.
Fair enough, although the speed with which it was deleted and no mention of it afterwards, and there being just the one ‘out of character’ tweet suggests someone suddenly thinking it wasn’t the best of tweets from the Mayor rather than someone nefariously gaining access to the account to cause mischief.
July 18th, 2011 § § permalink
Hackers have hit The Sun newspaper, and not the sort of hackers to hack your phone.
The URL http://thesun.co.uk redirects to http://new-times.co.uk/sun/ with a fake story about Rupert Murdoch being found dead. At the end of the story there is a cartoon which explains it.
h/t to @scaryduck, who I first head if from.
Update: TechCrunch has a little more.
And Again (23.18): The admins at new-times.co.uk have revoked access, but Lulzsec still have control of the Suns’ site and have redirected it to their Twitterfeed.
And another (23.45) Lulzsec just tweeted that News Internationals’ site, containing a statement about the hack, has been hacked to direct back to Lulzsecs Twitterfeed too. http://newsint.co.uk/statement_regarding_the_sun.html
January 11th, 2009 § § permalink
From an email newsletter received approx 10am today:
Stop the War Coalition
Temporary email address
stopwaruk@gmail.com
STOP THE WAR WEBSITE AND EMAIL ATTACKED
Stop the war has suffered a serious attack on its internet
site, which has been hacked, we assume by supporters of
Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Our website is down and our usual
email address not functioning.
We have set up a temporary email address for you to contact
Stop the War: stopwaruk@gmail.com
We expect to restore normal service soon.
