Arron Banks' twitter account hacked

The Twitter account of Arron Banks, the founder of the pro-Brexit campaign Leave.EU has been hacked.

A hacker hacked the Twitter account of Arron Banks, chairman of the pro-Brexit UK political campaign organization Leave.EU, and leaked his private message history online earlier this week. The BBC yesterday reported that the culprit had access to thousands of private messages that had been sent and received by Banks over several years.

The Guardian reported that the attack involved illegal access to Banks’s email address, and quoted a Leave.EU spokesman as saying that a SIM swap also took place.

“Twitter was notified 12 hours ago, and despite repeated requests, they have taken no action to deactivate the account or remove the illegal data downloads,” Banks continued. “Despite the obvious lack of security at Twitter related to personal data, they have deliberately chosen to leave personal data in the public domain.”

Last night, the hacked account posted a string of numbers that didn't make sense to Twitter users. At this time, there was little indication that the account had been hacked.

But soon after, another Tweet said, “hi the hash number in tween – u guess right SHA256 – is for the file of my full Twitter private data dump, search soon the hash number. password is rubli”

She said in a tweet that she had been sent some direct messages, said to be from the hacked account.
They were "pretty explosive" she tweeted.
Ms. Cadwalladr told the BBC she had not downloaded any data.
Mr. Banks' Twitter account was suspended following the breach but is now working again.