Labour MP Ed Miliband has found his Twitter page has been hijacked by the latest Twitter phishing scandal.
Late last night the Energy and Climate Change Secretary posted: "Hey, I've been having better sex and longer with this here," – a familiar tweet for anyone who has had their account hacked in recent days.
Miliband admitted on his feed that he had been hacked but only after his 6,693 followers received his fake sex admission.
Resetting passwords
Other high-profile Twitter users have been hit by the phishing scam, including the Guardian, the BBC and the Press Complaints Commission.
Twitter has updated its Status blog, noting: "Over the past few days, we've seen an increase in phishing attempts and are working on resetting passwords for accounts that were affected."
The blog also offers this advice: "While simply receiving this message does not mean your account is compromised, if you do click through and enter your username and password, you'll want to change your password."
Something Miliband et al will probably be doing right now – unless they really are tweeting about the joys of 'longer and better sex'.
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mattswain
February 26th 2010
2. The internet is like having Christmas day over and over again to the average cyber-criminal. People just keep walking into the same old traps again and again. You can bet that most of the idiots caught out by this scam will whinge about nasty hackers rather than going and getting a bit of education on how to use a computer before they manage to give away the deeds to their house in the next thinly veiled scam.
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mobius
February 26th 2010
1. I'm more worried that these people are so easily fooled by phishing scams. Not really "hacking" as most people think of it other than in the social engineering sense.
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