New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman may have a Nobel Laureate but he appears to be just as vulnerable to everyday cyber attacks as the average Joe.
First, he told his 4.6 million Twitter followers on Wednesday that bad actors had taken over his IP address. “Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography,” Krugman wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “I might just be a random target. But this could be an attempt to Qanon me. It’s an ugly world out there.”
Qanon is used to describe far-right conspiracy theorists who believe in a deep state that is threatening to take down President Trump.
He then followed up, in a tweet, saying that the “Times thinks it may have been a scam. Anyway, will have more security in future.”
Even so, Krugman’s allegations prompted a fierce backlash from social media, with many calling the economist’s bluff from the get-go.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-krugman-apos-ip-address-000039903.html
There is an email scam going around of late in which the sender claims that he hacked the recipient's computer and not only found evidence of kiddie porn, but used the recipient's web cam to take screen shots of the recipient spanking the monkey. The email concludes by demanding $2,500 in bit com to make this all go away.