Scottish Power blows a fuse after Twitter hijacking A Scottish Power Twitter account was hacked this morning to usher customers into the clutches of web miscreants. Many of the 2,000-plus followers of the UK utility's @SP_EnergyPeople feed received malicious direct messages tempting them to visit a phishing website designed to harvest Twitter login details. Scottish Power …
When all power here went out at about 5:26am a few weeks back I was wondering how I'd find out what was going on. We don't get our power from SE but I can see it being used, potentially, for things like this. As it happens I found a site that gave me the information I needed but no ETA on a fix. Power was back after about 40 minutes so I didn't have to empty the freezer and feast eat the things that were going to go off.
"We don't get our power from SE but I can see it being used, potentially, for things like this."
It may be worth pointing out that whatever energy supplier you use, it is not they who are responsible for infrastructure maintenance and fault rectification. It would be your local distribution network operators (such as United Utilities) who would be best positioned to provide status information - they usually provision an automated telephone service for such.
Maybe they could tweet as well (I haven't checked), although some people might find it hard to use Twitter when the power is off.
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