Try someone else, buddy: Bachchan laments to hackers.
By Dileep Thekkethil
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Celebrities are often soft targets for hackers and no matter how strong the privacy and security of their social accounts, perverted hackers find a way to sneak into it and do the unimaginable.
The latest victim of a hack attack is the Big B of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, who is one of the few Bollywood celebrities to interact with his followers on social media.
Bachchan, who was baffled by the hack posted on his wall today: “WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked! Sex sites planted as ‘following’! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t need this !” [sic]
The septuagenarian actor has followed 984 twitter users. He has ’unfollowed’ the offending sex sites.
Bachchan currently has 16.6 million followers on twitter; more than PM Modi who is an avid user of social media. According to BBC report, Amithab Bachchan is the most influential Indian on social media not only ahead of PM Modi but also cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and Dalai Lama.
Fortunately for the actor, the hacker didn’t post any vulgar images on his twitter timeline, which is not often the case. The hack came to light only when Bachchan tweeted about it. As soon as the tweet about the hack was posted, many of his followers offered to help him nab the hacker. Some others expressed their support through comments.
Later during the day, Big B tweeted that he has handed over the details of abusive SMSs that he had been receiving for a year to the police. “OKAAY…!! Plot thickens! Had been getting several really dirty abusive SMS for a year… just handed all of them to the POLICE,†the 72-year-old tweeted
Earlier, Bollywood directors Karan Johar and Kamaal R Khan had claimed that their twitter accounts were hacked and messages were sent to random people.