EU parliamentary assistant admits hacking MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's Twitter account

MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan said his account had been accessed twice from an IP address in Belgium on September 28, 2020, when he was in Ireland due to covid restrictions.

A former parliamentary assistant has admitted in a Belgian court to hacking the Twitter, now X, account of MEP Luke 'Ming' Flanagan.

Diarmuid Hayes, a 34-year-old filmmaker from Ireland, appeared before a court in Belgium, accused of posting a tweet from Mr Flanagan's account shortly before 3am on September 28, 2020, which referred to former Green Party politician Saoirse McHugh "skinny dipping".