Get Connected, Get Hacked

“I have been hacked; taking evasive maneuvers. Much apology, my friends,” wrote Rocky Barbanica, a producer for Rackspace Hosting, an Internet storage firm, in one such note.

Mr. Barbanica sent that out last month after realizing he had sent messages to 250 Twitter followers with a link and the sentence, “Are you in this picture?” If they clicked, their Twitter accounts were similarly commandeered.

“I took it personally, which I shouldn’t have, but that’s the natural feeling. It’s insulting,” he said.

- Viruses That Leave Victims Red in the Facebook
by Brad Stone for NY Times
2009-12-13

Hijacked communications are the tip of the iceberg – wait’ll you see how the underlying data gets used…

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