Pinterest has been hacked again, leading to the posting of links to non-existent Asian fruits and how much weight you can lose by eating them .
The spam is also spreading on Twitter, with the same weight loss messages: “An Asian fruit that burns fat for you? Yesplease!” and “I'm 12 poundslighterasoftoday!”, displaying a link to the spam post on the Pinterest website.
Below is just a snippet of the hundreds of spam links that users have unknowingly posted on Twitter about the enigmatic Asian fruit that supposedly achieves weight loss.
However, we still can't figure out what the mysterious Asian fruit is. Could it be the Kumquat?
This isn't the first time Pinterest has been hacked. The site's users were hit by a hacking attack on Zendesk in February 2013, which hosts the customer service software for the company, as well as Tumblr and Twitter.
Zendesk confirmed the attack on its website immediately after the news broke and admitted that it had fallen victim to hackers.
As with the previous attack, security experts at Sophos have warned users to pay more attention to emails and the links they click within them, although no passwords were stolen, it is still a serious attack.
For example, hackers who have stolen email addresses could create malicious messages with those addresses of Pinterest and try to trick them into clicking on dangerous links or attachments.
