Sir Paul McCartney gets hacked

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY has become the latest celebrity to have their website infiltrated by hackers.

The former Beatle's page was infected by the 'LuckySploit Toolkit' program which allows digital thieves to access the personal details of anyone using the site by tracking their keystrokes.

Paris Hilton fell victim to the same scheme back in January.

Experts at SafeScan, the company which first spotted the problem with McCartney's website, claim the hack began minutes after the musician appeared on stage at a benefit concert in New York with his former bandmate, Ringo Starr.

A spokesman for the firm said: "They obviously chose that time because they knew the site would be busy. We've seen this before with Paris Hilton and it can cause all sorts of problems.

"One of our clients was actually using (McCartney's) site and reported it. Hackers like these do around one site a week and obviously the more high-profile it is, the better."

A representative for McCartney confirmed that all the problems with the website have now been resolved and fans are safe to get back online:

"Once we discovered what was going on, we sorted it out immediately."