G20 Wizards Fall for Carla Bruni Honey Trap

Dozens of G20 diplomats had computers hacked after clicking on an attachment labelled 'To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here'

Heiress, supermodel, rock star, First Lady and now mother, there aren't many that compare to Carla.

Nude pictures of former French first lady Carla Bruni were used to break in to the computer systems of dozens of diplomats, it emerged today.

The shocking security breach was first discovered at the G20 summit in Paris in February 2011 and may be ongoing.

‘To see naked pictures of Carla Bruni click here’ said a message sent to those attending, who included finance ministers and central bank representatives.

This prompted many to open an attachment which turned out to be a ‘Trojan Horse’ with an embedded virus, although all recipients could see were the X-rated photographs.

Once accessed, it infected the computers of senior officials as well as forwarding the offensive email on to others.

Truly, the world is in the best of hands...

‘Almost everybody who received the email took the bait,’ said a government source in Paris, saying that this included representatives from the Czech Republic, Portugal, Bulgaria, Hungary and Latvia.

Mr Sarkozy was first embarrassed by nude pictures of Ms Bruni surfacing shortly after their marriage, while they were staying with the Queen at Windsor Castle during a state visit to Britain.

Embarrassed?  For crying out loud, he's French; I'm sure he was proud, and wouldn't be surprised if he didn't arrange the re-emergence of the pictures himself.  Besides, given a choice between Carli Bruni and the Queen?  No contest.  Sorry, Liz.

Ms Bruni, who still uses her maiden name in her career as a pop singer, later changed her image from a Paris sex kitten into a demure politician’s wife.

The so-called phishing attacks are thought to have originated in China and were aimed at extracting information.

The attacks are still being investigated, and nobody is yet sure what information was extracted.

America is thought to have been the main target of the scam.

Carla has been a subject on this blog numerous times, and most of the links have one or more of the pictures in question.

Carla Bruni's First Lady Prospects Looking Up
Carla Bruni to Leave Fance for Tax Haven 
It's (almost) Final! Carla Bruni Out in France! 
Say It Ain't So, Carla! 
Carla Bruni Can't Wait to Get it Over With
Take A Smoke Break, Carla! 
Putting Carla On a Pedestal
Powerful Men and Pretty Women - Rule 5 - Carla Bruni

Wombat-Socho got the master Rule 5 Sunday post up on "Rule 5 Monday" this week.