Affiliate Hackers Jack Obama’s Twitter
Posted on January 5th, 2009 in Affiliate Marketing, Retards
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Looks like someone found a vulnerability in twitter that allowed people to break into anyone’s accounts earlier which led to the misuse of pretty much every high profile twitter account available (except nickycakes’). The highest profile, of course, was Obama’s.
The attacker cleverly (or so he thought) posted a link to a zip submit on Copeac. Seriously…put yourself in the shoes of a semi-intelligent hacker who finds he can access the twitter account of the President Elect. Why on earth would you do something like promote an affiliate offer to a US network which will inevitably give up your personal details the minute the Secret Service comes knockin’? Pretty retarded.
You’d think that a scheme like this would generate quite a bit of income, but sadly, this was not the case. According to a trusted source at Copeac, the revenue generated was “barely enough to cover a decent dinner for two.”
Stay classy Affiliate Marketing hackers.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Gas prices are down, dont make much sense.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Haha funny to see should of put up some Acai offers saying this is how Obama stays thin funny stuff great post!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Was his account phished?
January 5th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Or they were evil geniuses and put a competitors aff url in there to watch the secret service haul some poor guy off to secret courts and a gulag in Cuba.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:56 am
He made like $150 off of it, needless to say it was an epic fail
January 6th, 2009 at 1:52 am
http://digg.com/politics/Hackers_Take_Over_Obama_s_Twitter_Account
January 6th, 2009 at 2:10 am
of course he was a copeac affiliate. his retarded AM probably told him to do it.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:22 am
lol, Matt. Maybe! … but I doubt it. haha
Go directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Jesus, if your gonna hack the president elects anything, at least make sure your gonna bank off of the mischief.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Haha, that is totally crazy. I wonder if they now have access to other services Obama used. At least he tried not to incent the offer.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:14 am
should’ve tried the obama grant offer that’s on a few networks
January 6th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Perhaps it’s a set up? This hacker may have put his biggest competitors affiliate tracking in the URL to set him up.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:43 am
hahahahaha classic
January 6th, 2009 at 10:25 am
The moral of the story is: don’t be an idiot! I wonder if there were more successful attempts with Britney Spears’ account and the other high profilers that were hacked…
January 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Go directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200….. Literally.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Yeah right. It didn’t get hacked. Obama is just trying to raise some cash. He spent a shitload on his campaign.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
LOL @ Jeff’s comment.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
LMAO!!!
Fair play for the hack, idiot for “payload”!
Dork HM
January 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
the grant offer with his pic would have probably pulled in some serious dough — “FREE GRANTS FOR MY TWITTER FOLLOWERS!” rofl.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Ryan Eagle did it.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
well whatever he made, I guess its better than nothing
January 7th, 2009 at 3:45 am
i wonder if he is underage, like 16 or something. thats retarded enough any older and retardation might actually been a good legal defense.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:38 am
people will say a lot about a scam artist like this..but we all know there are a whole lot of affiliates who would have followed the same path if this dumb donky had made $150,000 pulling this crap Off…we all know this!
January 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Haha, that is totally crazy
January 8th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@ Josh Todd Says:
“I wonder if there were more successful attempts with Britney Spears’ account and the other high profilers that were hacked…”
“Hi Yall! Brit Brit here, just wanted to update you all on the size of my vagina. It’s about 4 feet wide with razor sharp teeth.”
(I knew about it after reading it in one of my gossip feeds.)