Man admits hacking Twitter account of Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan MEP

by MoHataMo_Gheansai

16 comments
  1. This was the one where Luke allegedly tweeted ” *Sapirse mchugh photo skinnydipping* ” at 02:50.

    I have to admit, as far as making him look like a perv, it was genius. You could see on the old threads here that absolutely no-one believed it was a legitimate fake tweet (myself included tbf).

  2. >A Belgian public prosecutor has sought a one year prison term for Hayes.

    How likely is this? Seems a bit excessive. 

  3. Fair play Ming, I didn’t believe you for ages on that one.

  4. Can you imagine the prison yard

    1: What you all in for?
    2: GBH
    3: Drug possession
    4: Theft
    5: Er …..

  5. Whatever your politics, it’s a pretty terrible thing to have happen. It must have been very upsetting at the time.

  6. I really feel for him. Nobody believed him, including myself.

  7. I must admit, I doubted ming.

    But I still think its a very funny story.

  8. Sorry about all those things I said Ming. You were right.

  9. Although I understand this is the colloquial meaning of “hacking”, since this guy was a parliamentary assistant he probably wasn’t hacked. Flanagan probably left himself logged in somewhere or his computer unlocked.

  10. Best frape of all time?

    Obviously your man’s a scumbag for the reputational damage is prank caused.

  11. I’ve genuinely never believed a politician’s “I was hacked” story, but it turns out he was!

    Hopefully he sues your man for defamation.

  12. The article says that tweet actually included a picture of someone skinnydipping.

    >Diarmuid Hayes, 34, from Dublin, was convicted in a Belgian court of posting a naked picture of an Irish Green Party candidate from Mr Flanagan’s account in September 2020.

    >The court heard that Mr Hayes had posted an image of Saoirse McHugh swimming naked just before 3am on 28 September 2020.

    Is that right? I was sure it was just a tweet with the text “Sapirse mchugh photo skinnydipping”. And it was supposed to look like he meant to do a google search or something. I didn’t think there was an actual picture posted.

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