Ed Miliband MP, the high profile British Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, has fallen victim to the current swathe of phishing attacks sweeping the Twitter system.
Mr Miliband, who is a member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet, appears to have been careless with his computer security and handed his Twitter username and password over to hackers, possibly as a result of the “This You????” or “LOL this is funny” attacks we saw earlier this week.
As a consequence, earlier today his account posted spam messages promoting potions to improve sexual performance:
A typical spam message reads:
hhey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here <link…
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