Plummy-voiced property crumpet Kirstie Allsopp has fallen foul of hackers on Twitter, who posted messages pointing to free iPad scams this weekend from her account.
The British TV presenter, best known for her Channel 4 property programmes “Location, Location, Location” and “Kirstie’s Homemade Home”, only found out that her account had been hacked when some of her 47,000 Twitter followers alerted her to the out-of-character tweets.
The links took unsuspecting fans to webpages which encouraged them to apply for free iPads by handing over personal information and signing up for scams that charged £4.50 per week.
Kitten-heeled Kirstie had deleted all of the offending tweets from Twitter by the time I went looking for them this morning, but I managed to track down two examples that had been cached elsewhere:
free ipads!!! [link removed]
omg free ipad, witha train skin =D [link removed]
You’ll notice that the spam messages say that they…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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