SCOTTISH Labour leader Kezia Dugdale was left red-faced tonight [mon] after her Twitter account was hijacked by a porn site.
Ms Dugdale's profile picture was replaced by a naked woman hugging a tree while a post by a lingerie-clad user called Eliza Rollins directed users to porn videos.
She invited Ms Dugdale's followers to "go speak vulgar themes" above a photograph of her kneeling on a chair wearing only a pink lace bra and pants.
Just had my Twitter hacked - thanks to everyone who alerted me. Pic of me and (super) John McGinn till I find another!
— Kez Dugdale (@kezdugdale) 23 May 2016
The post was re-tweeted more than 800 times before the Labour leader took to her social media profile shortly after 10.15pm to let her followers know that she had been hacked.
Ms Dugdale tweeted: "Just had my Twitter hacked - thanks to everyone who alerted me. Pic of me and (super) John McGinn [the Hibs football player] 'til I find another!"
Ms Dugdale has almost 29,000 followers on Twitter.
Hackers typically target users with high volumes of followers in order to promote their own websites or scams.
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