Mr. Weiner’s spokesman, Dave Arnold, said on Monday, “We’ve retained counsel to explore the proper next steps and to advise us on what civil or criminal actions should be taken. This was a prank. We are loath to treat it as more, but we are relying on professional advice.”

I hope they do vigorously pursue this incident, because it could help protect other people who use facebook and twitter. Somebody hacked my aunt’s fb account and sent pornographic links to her list of friends, which include primarily family members whose ages range from 10 to 80. It was really not cool….and bizarre, becasue my aunt is in her 50s, happy, employed, stable, etc.