It's not just the Pentagon, multinationals and high profile politicians who get their computers hacked these days – media organisations are clearly also targets, as the Syrian Electronic Army's recent attacks on AP, CBS News and the Guardian show. The latest victim is Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell who has been hacked by an operative who goes by the name Guccifer. The Times reports that he burrowed his way into her computer, lifted a chunk of her new book and posted a link to it on Twitter. "Here you can read my last book 'killing monica' first 50 pages, enjoy," said the tweet. Then, cleverly, Guccifer uploaded emails from the author to her publisher lamenting the fact her Twitter account had been hacked. Guccifer's previous conquests have included George Bush Sr (remember those pics on The Smoking Gun?), Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell. So the question is: why Bushnell? She's hardly news these days, is she? Monkey can't help thinking that in this case a little bit of hackery might get her latest book a long way.
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