Piers Morgan Hack Mystery

And so it came to pass that the host of Murdoch noise floor occupant TalkTV’s overhyped flop The All New Percy Moron Show had his Twitter account hacked, to the considerable amusement of all those who not only wished it had happened rather earlier, but also considered the result to be an improvement on what had gone before.

While The Great Man’s colleagues in the media class - one hesitates to use the word “friends” where Morgan is concerned - have been swift to make light of the incident, the Mail pointing the finger at someone from Somalia and plastering their face all over Mail Online, the possibility exists that someone from rather nearer home might have been involved.

For starters, the name of the account was briefly changed to “Piers C**t”; this was the name of a hack in a Viz strip about Baxter Basics MP, who had caught the mythical MP having a relationship with an under-age male. The all too obvious question is quite straightforward - just how big is Viz in Somalia? Because if it isn’t, then maybe the Mail should have investigated further.

But then, the Mail and investigative journalism are only occasional bedfellows, and only then when those labouring under the less than benign direction of the paper’s editor-in-chief, the legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre, want to get some dirt on their targets. Otherwise, it’s recycled press releases, hatchet jobs and the dirge of obscenely overpaid pundits all the way.

Morgan now has control of his Twitter feed back, but the questions are mounting up: his password can’t have been too challenging a guess, or maybe it was too short and too straightforward. Then comes the information that may have been available to the hacker. Like the Twitter DMs which Morgan may have exchanged with his colleagues and sources.

Why, so the question goes, were his DMs not pored over and then released? But the thought should have already entered: just because we have not seen the contents of Morgan’s DMs does not mean they were not accessed. Maybe they were. So the possibility exists that some of them may yet be published, and without reference as to whether Morgan agrees. Or not.

Worse, there are two further scenarios, neither of which will make happy reading for The Great Man. One is those DMs being used to blackmail him: after all, Morgan is filthy rich, with his rumoured eight-figure deal to host for TalkTV making him a very obvious target. The other is the holder of the DMs eschewing such crudity and merely forwarding them to those Morgan has targeted.

Or, of course, their legal representatives. Like those acting for the Duchess of Sussex and her family. That would also have the potential to lighten Morgan’s account at Coutt’s considerably. Whatever happens, the potential outcomes are universally bad for The Great Man, and universally good for anyone who dislikes his rampant egotism, which is probably most people.

Piers Morgan got his Twitter back. But what might someone else have also got?