Arron Banks's private Twitter messages leaked by hacker

guest · Nov 19, 2019

Arron Banks's private Twitter messages leaked by hacker
Leave.EU co-founder accuses platform of leaving his personal data online for 24 hours
November 19, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...kss-private-twitter-messages-leaked-by-hacker

Arron Banks’s Twitter account has been hacked and the entire private message history of the Leave.EU founder uploaded to the internet, in what appears to be a targeted attack that has been reported to the police.

Leave.EU spokesman, Andy Wigmore, told the Guardian the hack had been reported to the police and they were investigating possible breaches of the Computer Misuse Act.

“The police told us pretty quickly that it was a simswap,” he said, referring to the tactic where control of a phone number is obtained by a hacker, enabling them to gain access to the account.
The attack appears to have involved gaining access to Banks’s email address, which was registered to an expired campaign website. Someone else appears to now own the domain for that site, which directs users to pornography.

A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset police said: “We are investigating whether any offences have been committed under the Computer Misuse Act after we received a report that a Twitter account was compromised.”
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BBC: Arron Banks' Twitter account hacked

In a statement posted by the campaign's official account, Mr Banks said "personal data" had since been shared via Twitter.
He also accused the social network of failing to tackle the issue.
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