Bad boy of Brexit Arron Banks hacked, private Twitter messages leaked

Bad boy of Brexit Arron Banks hacked, private Twitter messages leaked


British businessman Arron Banks, one of the self-styled “Bad Boys of Brexit” and a leading figure of the Leave.EU campaign, has had his Twitter account hacked.


Nothing unusual in that you might think. People in the public eye get their Twitter accounts hacked all the time, often by mischief-makers who get a kick out of posting something silly or offensive from the compromised account.


But in this case, whoever hacked Arron Banks’s Twitter account also downloaded his archive of private direct messages (DMs), and also managed to get their paws upon his list of contacts that he had (perhaps unwisely in retrospect) allowed to sync up with Twitter.


The sensitive data was uploaded onto file-sharing sites, and links posted to the @Arron_banks account.



Twitter eventually suspended the hacked account, but some hours after the Leave.EU campaign publicly questioned quite why it was taking them so long. Arron Banks himself was clearly frustrated at the tardy response from Twitter, which he demonstrated in a message shared by the official Leave.EU account:



“I became aware last night that my Twitter account had been hacked and that persons involved have posted personal data obtained illegally via Twitter. The matter has been reported to the police. Twitter were notified 12 hours ago, and despite repeated requests they have taken no action to deactivate the account or remove the illegal data downloads. Despite the obvious lack of security at Twitter relating to personal data, they have deliberately chosen to leave personal data in the public domain.”



Twitter, of course, has no way of enforcing that the data is removed from the third-party file-sharing sites.


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