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    Hacked This Way: Lady Gaga’s Twitter Hijacked!

    By Lyndsey Parker | Stop The Presses! – Tue, Dec 20, 2011 12:48 PM EST

    Hey, want a free iPad for the holidays--as a gift from Lady Gaga? Well, if such an offer seems too good to be true, it's because it is. Sorry, Little Monsters, but Gaga is just the latest celebrity to fall victim to a shady Twitter hacker.

    Gaga has more than17 million followers, and on Monday many of those followers saw this enticing but suspicious message: "FREE iPad2's to each one of you in the spirit of the holidays." Her official Facebook was also spammed with the similar promotional message: "Lady Gaga's new iPad comes out in 3 days! So for the next 72 hours we will be hosting a massive giveaway to all the Mother Monster fans. Sign up and receive your special Lady Gaga edition iPad in time for the Holidays! For contest rules and registration visit the link below."

    The Twitter and Facebook links on Gaga's pages went to a website that appeared to be a phishing scam, soliciting personal information from users.

    Gaga later deleted the suspicious tweet and Facebook post, posting herself: "Phew. The hacking is over! And just in time, I'm on my way to Japan! So excited to spend Xmastime with my TokyoMonsters!" Some of her followers then tweeted her back expressing disappointment that there will be no new iPad2 under the tree for them this year, or even accusing her of ungraciously rescinding a legitimate gift. ("I took your generous offer seriously," tweeted one confused fan.)

    But come on, now. Lady Gaga may be the top-earning woman in music, according to Forbes, but even she can't afford to give away 17 million iPads.

    Related links:

    Gaga tops Forbes list of top-earning female musicians

    Lady Gaga adopts odd new accent

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    • none
      none  •  5 months ago
      ------slaps forehead and weeps for humankind ("I took your generous offer seriously," tweeted one confused fan.)
      • Christina
        Christina 5 months ago
        exactly.
      • Rachel
        Rachel 5 months ago
        lulz
      • Detharal
        Detharal 5 months ago
        These are the same people who fall for the emails stating that a distant relative left them 300 million in India. They only need credit card, social, driver;s license and date of birth.
    • Specter Tracy
      Specter Tracy  •  5 months ago
      Fans really thought she was going to give them all an iPad2? Really? I see scams all the time I guess that's why I'm suprised.
      • Moi
        Moi 5 months ago
        They are Lady Gaga's fans.
      • Fritz
        Fritz 5 months ago
        and they're stupid, both believing the hack tweet, and for being her fans , HAAHAHA
      • Joe43302
        Joe43302 5 months ago
        Moi said exactly what I thought. Honestly, if someone hacked Jersey Shore Twitter and said free iPad's for everyone who slits their wrists we'd have half the U.S. population by tomorrow.
    • Shon
      Shon  •  5 months ago
      Her password was 12345
      • roy
        roy 5 months ago
        more like her password was "password"
      • A Yahoo! User 5 months ago
        12345? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
      • Nick Forte
        Nick Forte 5 months ago
        more like her password was lady gaga
    • Fox
      Fox  •  5 months ago
      Because @ approximately 17 million followers/fans and a basic iPad is about $400. So take 17million at $400 with a guess of 8.425% for tax....... $7.4 billion is reasonable to spend on iPads. Considering she does not make that much money. Anybody who is truly upset with this needs to reevaluate what is important to them. Don't go throw life expecting a bunch of freebies from everyone, people.
      • G-Money
        G-Money 5 months ago
        Hey if they bought a few of her CD's maybe they deserve to be compensated for the wasted time and money used to listen to her horribly fake pop, agenda driven music. I actually liked her music when she started, but then she completely sold out to make it big with the kiddies, the confused, the gay, the liberal, and the odd overseas crowds. It is worse than when Eminem was paid by the Democratic party to bash President Bush in an effort to seize the vote of his blindfolded followers, but luckily I think most of his fans were bright enough to see that he had sold out and weren't too keen to listen to such an obvious sell-out.
      • Samarah
        Samarah 5 months ago
        @G-Money,

        You mean to tell me that it isn't possible for a music artist to have and voice their own political opinion? Are you that dense? And she sold out from the minute she started, there was no good point for her.
      • joseph
        joseph 5 months ago
        The unfortunate part is that so many people think that an artist (who let's face it, is usually out of touch with reality) has a political opinion which holds more weight than that of an average political nerd sitting next to them in the library.
    • j
      j  •  5 months ago
      if you thought it was a serious offer, you're a complete #$%$
      • A Yahoo! User 5 months ago
        you are talking about people who follow lady gaga. It is implied
      • Herm
        Herm 5 months ago
        Must have been a non-working liberal blood sucking democrat
      • Tom
        Tom 5 months ago
        Some people are just so stupid.
    • Blinky
      Blinky  •  5 months ago
      I hacked my own email and posted a comment. it was awesome
    • K
      K  •  5 months ago
      Are these people just that stupid to think they would get an Ipad? People took her offer seriously....OMG, HOW FRIGGEN DUMB CAN YOU BE?
    • ryan
      ryan  •  5 months ago
      people still looking for handouts
    • The Salt Lick
      The Salt Lick  •  5 months ago
      17 million viewers x $500 Ipad2 = $8,500,000,000.00. I don't think she is worth $5.8 billion.
    • tina thyroid
      tina thyroid  •  5 months ago
      who could possibly give a crap seriously?. puleeeze. crawl back in your hole with the kardashians.
    • MARK
      MARK  •  5 months ago
      Who gives a #$%$
    • ggg
      ggg  •  5 months ago
      Her fans are dumb as nails! Just ABSOLUTE morons!
    • Ole' Raspy
      Ole' Raspy  •  5 months ago
      The next fad is twitter banging..... getting someone to sleep with you using less than 140 words..
    • Mike R
      Mike R  •  5 months ago
      Sad is the world when Lady Gaga's twitter account gets hacked but all anyone wants to comment about is how they find her ugly.

      Oh well. At least they're not calling Obama a socialist like they are in every other farking Yahoo article's comments section.
    • stevie
      stevie  •  5 months ago
      she looks like a vampire
    • SPYDER
      SPYDER  •  5 months ago
      any bets on how many idiots actually BELIEVED those posts and stupidly clicked on the link?????
    • Grunt
      Grunt  •  5 months ago
      ""I took your generous offer seriously," tweeted one confused fan."

      What a complete idiot...just like the rest of her fanbase.
    • Scott Butler
      Scott Butler  •  5 months ago
      she proved she can do something good for others and now you steal from her, what kind of people are you. Go GAGA Go............
    • Heydaddy
      Heydaddy  •  5 months ago
      RONNIE JAMES DIO DIED MAY 16.....2010,,NOT 2011!
    • Brian
      Brian  •  5 months ago
      You know, if you take away all of the glitzy clothes and jewelry, all of the make-up that looks like it was applied with a roller and a trowel, and her marginal talent, she's actually an INCREDIBLY UNATTRACTIVE FEMALE!
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