Celebrities at High Risk From Hackers

 At last week's Sunday lunch while discussing my recent post on Sarah Palin's email hack, a friend asked me how vulnerable celebrities were to being hacked. It was quite coincidental that few hours later the face book account of the French President Nicholas Sarkozy was hacked into and posted with the message "Dear compatriots, given the exceptional circumstances our country is experiencing, I have decided in my spirit and conscience not to run for office again at the end of my mandate in 2012." This was not the first successful hacking attempt against the President of France. In 2008, President Sarkozy filed a complaint with the police following withdrawals of "small amounts of money" from his personal Parisian bank account. It is alleged that the money was used to set up mobile phone subscriptions. Interestingly the President was a victim of a mass Phishing attack, presumable a fake email linking to a fraudulent bank site where he entered his bank account and password, and not specifically targeted.

Celebrities the world over are specifically targeted due to their status, riches and fanaticisms of a section of fans. Beside compromised email, twitter, face book accounts they are vulnerable to (where their domain name is taken over by another individual) and malicious attachments in fan mail. In a few cases celebrity accounts have been hacked through back end systems of social networks. If you need any kind of information on this article related topic click here: Trusted Hackers for Hire