Shashi tharoor twitter account hacked. Targets Mehr Tarar of the Daily mail
January 15, 2014 Leave a comment
Looks like Shashi Tharoor twitter account got hacked.
@shashitharoor is the twitter account which got hacked today (jan 15 2014)
Its only breaking news and its not clear what actually happened.
Sunanda Pushkar @sptvrock and Mehr Tarar also seem to be affected , probably due to the tweets going to their account from his.
He seems to have tweeted that his account is hacked and therefore temporarily deactivated, but its still accessible
Mehr Tarar seems to be the target of many of the tweets – https://www.facebook.com/mehr.tarar – is her Facebook account. Its better i guess if she takes down the facebook account because the media will be using photos from her FB account to circulate with their stories
Mehr Tarar is an assistant editor with the daily times in Pakistan. So the hacker could be from pakistan too.
Mehr Tarar has now tweeted on Twitter that she is not going to respond – initially she put out some confused tweets after recieving the information from Shashi Tharoors tweets. Guess its not too difficult to figure out that his account @shashitharoor had got hacked
Guess those who are not from the intelligensia or regular talk show watchers must be asking “who is mehr tarar?”
After all Shashi Tharoors over 2 million followers will now be checking up on Google search
There is a tweet by a certain Dalia Ezzat – one of the followers of Mehr Tarars accounts who seems to have tweeted that Shashi Tharoors and Sunanda pushkars accounts have been hacked. She refers to “hacking by a 7th grader” – hopefully in jest 🙂
How can both Mr Tharoors and Sunanda’s account get hacked? – unless someone has been trying to break their accounts at the same time, or the hacking of one twitter account led to another – often hackers use the details in one account to get into another. Particularly if there are similar passwords or stored information(like in emails)