Nick Tippmann
Gawker is reporting and now Arianna her self is confirming that yesterday morning her personal email was hacked into. For those who don’t know who she is, she is the founder of Huggington Post, a blog site which after selling to AOL for over $300 million never gave a dime to her workers, many of whom she never paid in the past.
The email went out to look like Arianna her self sent a document for people to see. What it did was leave those who opened the email to a mock site for users to log into. Thus providing their email and passwords to the hackers.
The email, never went out to her whole contact list, by the time they realized it they changed the password n prevented more find receiving the email.
From: Arianna Huffington
To: Maureen O’Connor
Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: Gawker Question: Arianna’s email hacked?Maureen, it’s true. Our tech department investigated and discovered it was hackers from Nigeria, and no I’m not giving up my AOL email. Arianna
From: Maureen O’Connor
To: Arianna Huffington
Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Gawker Question: Arianna’s email hacked?Thanks Arianna. Glad to hear you guys figured it out. While I’ve got you on the line — do you still use your cellphone in the bathroom? Not judging; I like to play word games while using the toilet.
As of now, not Arianna nor is AOL commenting on this.
Source: GAWKER
