We have challenges of piracy in Nigeria, in advanced countries hackers are headache to book writers and authors.The first draft of 50 pages of Candace Bushnell's unpublished new novel have been redistributed online by a hacker named Guccifer.
Candace Bushnell, the author behind the Sex and the City book which inspired the successful TV series, has been a victim of celebrity hacker Guccifer.
Fifty pages of Bushnell's new novel, Killing Monica, have been published online by the hacker, along with email correspondence between the author and her agents. Bushnell describes the pages as "strictly very first draft" in one email sent last December.
Attention was drawn to the pages via a link sent by Bushnell's official Twitter account on Monday afternoon. According to Gawker, the update, which has since been deleted, read: "Here you can read my last book 'killing Monica' first 50 pages; enjoy as long as you can!" [sic] and linked to a Google Drive document filled with screenshots of the pages.
Guccifer continued to add more pages to the Drive, including emails between Bushnell and her agents after discovering the hack.
Guccifer's previous hack victims have been members of the American government and politicians, including family members of George W. Bush and Hilary Clinton, who have had their email and Facebook accounts hacked and confidential information leaked.
While Bushnell appears to be the first author Guccifer has targeted, she's not the only author to have suffered from leaked pages cropping up online: in 2008 an early draft of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's Midnight Sun – a spin-off series telling the stories from the vampire Edward's point of view – was leaked.
Bushnell's UK publisher was unable to comment on the hack.
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