With in excess of nine million followers, Ashton Kutcher is a influential shape on Twitter.
A link or endorsement post by the actor, who lately alienated from Demi Moore, is amazing that many brands and websites would dream of, imagining the transfer that would approach as a result.So it’s maybe no shock to find that some mischief-makers strength also enjoyment in annoying to hack into Ashton Kutcher’s online financial records, to see what problem they could cause.
The “Two and a half men” star’s Twitter account post some bizarre messages on Sunday, it seems that confirm that he was in a romantic association with Lorene Scafaria:
First official sleepover with my girl @lorenescafaria so maybe breakfast with everyone next time! (@ Lorene’s House). [LINK]
and
Check out my new girl Lorene’s House (Los Angeles, CA) on foursquare. [LINK]
Celeb-watching websites jump on the news, which long-established rumours that have been milling approximately for weeks that Kutcher and Scafaria may be in a association but there was only one problem… the messages posted on Kutcher’s explanation weren’t made by him.It appears in its place that Kutcher had fallen victim to a hack. specially, it looks like Kutcher’s Foursquare account (which is connected to his Twitter account) may have been compromised, allowing the hacker to claim to be the actor examination into locations, and for them to be then tweet to his millions of fans.
Kutcher detached the aberrant tweets (perhaps worried about what Demi Moore would think)
Had Kutcher chosen a poor, easy-to-guess or non-unique password? We don’t know – but the injure was done, and it took some six hours for the star to become aware of and take any action.A hack like this could be awkward for anyone, but it actually must feel particularly annoying when you’re someone like Kutcher who has made no secret of in public invest in the Foursquare Company.
Kutcher posted some messages (subsequently deleted) to his Twitter account, acknowledging the hack:
So apparently someone thinks they are clever hacking my account. #lame
and
Ok mr hacker, you only made one mistake. You hacked my Foursquare and I now know your address. Whoops…. This is gonna be fun.
At the time of script, only one message connected to the hack leftovers on Kutcher’s Twitter account – an image it seems that presentation where the star believe his hacker to be located:
If Kutcher actually believes he may have a clue as to where his hacker is based, he would be better handing the information over to the police quite than (potentially) hopeful his more passionate fans to take the law into their own hands.
Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter account come under attack. Last year, for instance, the star was outfoxed by a hacker using the Fire sheep tool. While attending a TED conference in Long Beach, California, the actor’s Twitter account was hijack by an important person who posted pro-SSL graffiti (an attack that could have been with no trouble avoided).