Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Was Hacked During TED Conference

By Sarah Crow Posted Mar 3rd 2011 02:33PM

Ashton Kutcher Has Twitter Hacked at TED Conference

Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account has provided the world a great many things: odes to coffee sung with his stepdaughter, pictures of his unaging wife and now, a lesson on ensuring the security of your server.

While attending the TED 2011 'The Rediscovery of Wonder' conference, at which notable intellectuals and artists, including Bill Gates, Bobby McFerrin, David Brooks and Julie Taymor are all scheduled to speak, Kutcher got a less-than-pleasant surprise when he found his Twitter had been hacked.

Kutcher's nearly 6.4 million followers were treated to tweets claiming to have "punk'd" Kutcher. The hackers cheekily wrote to the actor, "Dude, where's my SSL?"

Check out the hackers' tweets inside.

Ashton isn't the first celebrity to have his Twitter hacked. In 2009, the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, CNN's Rick Sanchez and FOX News were all hacked to claim that Britney was suffering a peculiar medical condition, that Bill O'Reilly had come out and that Rick Sanchez was taking a very special personal day from work. (Check out the tweets at HuffPo.)

More recently, Selena Gomez's account has been attacked, with hackers posting "Oh yeh, JUSTIN BIEBER SUCKS!!!!!!" on her page.

At least Ashton's hackers had a mission, unlike the nonbeliebers. They just wanted some justice for other Internet insiders, and really, really didn't like 'Valentine's Day.'

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Thursday 03 March

By Will

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We put too much faith and trust in the internet. It's not as secure as people would like to think.

By joan

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Totally agree with you Will. I refuse to go into Twitter or Facebook, too much of an invasion of privacy issue and definitely not safe regardless of how popular it is.

By stu

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wow...6.4 million LOSERS in the world!
too bad his movies don't make tat much.

By themeeker

I guess this would matter a whole lot more if Kutcher had anything relevant to say...but he doesn't.

In the grand scheme of things, this really doesn't matter at all.

On second glance, I wonder if Kutcher didn't plant that tweet himself for a little publicity. I wouldn't put it past him.

Saturday 05 March

By BAM

Now if he actually got PUNK'D - then I might watch his show for that episode.

By the_fool

The air head was probably lost and had no idea how to take his next step without telling his followers all about it.

Friday 04 March

By warning!!!!

That site agegapsin gles.c'om has a Big VIRUS that will download your pictures and then photoshop them into porn for the site!!!! Stay away DO NOT CLICK

BIG BIG VIRUS ON THAT SITE!

By qqqqqqqman

Wow, whodda thunk...a bunch of losers on Twitter and Facebook, searching for a life.

By Mike

what was he doing at conference? Were they making a "B" grade movie? Or was he undercover for MTV? He has the grey matter of a Poodle.

By Zero

If somebody has the wits to hack something, I usually believe it.

By superfknmario

What the hell was this douche doing at that event? I'm pretty sure he didn't make it past the 5th grade.

LMFAO @ the fact that you were stupid enough to visit that site! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

By Melba Ann Williams

Shucks give Ashton a break~he is the Father of Twitter so of course some airhead will target him. Once when mine was hacked I tweeted to him--he sent a nice regret. Don't Bash Ash..

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