Cybersecurity firm links Piers Morgan Twitter hack to leak of 400m records
Source: The Guardian
Cybersecurity firm links Piers Morgan Twitter hack to leak of 400m records
Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison among politicians and celebrities whose details were in sample of allegedly hacked data published online
Amy Remeikis
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Wed 28 Dec 2022 07.03 GMT
Last modified on Wed 28 Dec 2022 07.18 GMT
The former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison appears to have been caught up in a leak of partial data on 400 million Twitter users, along with celebrities including the model Cara Delevingne, US politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and pop singer Shawn Mendes.
Morrison’s Twitter account was included in a sample of data released by an alleged cybercriminal last week.
A cybersecurity firm which alerted to the claim said it was “likely not a coincidence” that media personality Piers Morgan, who also appeared in data samples published by the hacker, has just had his Twitter account hacked.
Most of Morgan’s Twitter account content had been wiped, but according to reports, it had sent out slurs and abusive messages directed at the late Queen and at UK singer Ed Sheeran.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/28/cybersecurity-firm-links-piers-morgan-twitter-hack-to-leak-of-400-million-records-including-scott-morrisons