Twitter's celebrities fall victim to coordinated phishing attack (Obama)

Telegraph UK ^

[bethybabes69]

The Twitter accounts of Britney Spears, Barack Obama and Stephen Fry have all been hijacked by phishers

When Barack Obama's followers on Twitter.com, the short-form blogging service, received the president-elect's latest update, they were probably expecting more thanks for their support. Instead they were asked "What is your opinion on Barack Obama?

[bethybabes69]

Not sure if this has been posted already, apologies if it has.

[bethybabes69]

Another article, with screen captures here

[martin_fierro]

I don't know much about Twitter, or about this guy on CNN...

...but the Kabuki-esque hand gesticulations he makes while talking are really, really annoying.

[weegee]

Will all of the background communication that goes INTO Obama’s twitter account be archived for possible subpoena?

[bethybabes69]

It's a good point, hacking aside, it's likely they will post some contradictive stuff on there at some point.

Could do with an 'Obama-esque' sugar daddy type funder to pay the wages of a group of people to scrutinise his online comments 24/7!