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Thought the whole 'celebrities getting hacked' thing was just PR until my cousin showed me the DMs from that Bella Thorne thing
I always figured when a famous person posted something wild or embarrassing, it was a PR stunt and nobody was actually stealing their stuff, but then last Tuesday my cousin pulled up the leaked screenshots from that Bella Thorne hack and the texts were so boring and normal I knew no publicist wrote them. Seeing real conversations about dog food and dumb arguments made me realize these hackers actually get into people's phones and just dump everything online. So how do you all tell the difference between a hacked post and a celeb just having a bad night on Twitter?
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kaid593d ago
Real hacks are way more common than people want to believe, but the idea that leaked boring texts prove anything is backwards. Publicists don't write the wild stuff, they write the apologies after the wild stuff, so of course the raw DMs look normal, that's just how humans text. The tell isn't boring content, it's timing and damage, because a real breach dumps everything at once and never lines up with a movie premiere or album drop. Most of these "hacks" get walked back later as phone resets or old screenshots, and the boring texts you saw were probably saved by someone who already had access, not some master hacker. Bad nights on Twitter and hacked accounts look the same from the outside because both are just a person saying stuff they'll regret. The only real way to tell is waiting a week to see if lawyers get involved or if everyone quietly moves on.
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