Iowa Sen. Bisignano says his Facebook page was hacked

State Sen. Tony Bisignano, D-Des Moines, said Tuesday he was the victim of a computer hacker who posted the name of a pornographic website on his Facebook page.

Others on social media theorized that Bisignano had been online at 2 a.m. and was searching for the “YouPorn” website but accidentally posted the name of the website as a status update on his Facebook page.

But Bisignano told The Des Moines Register Tuesday he had not been looking at pornography and knew nothing about the name of the pornographic website being on his Facebook page until late Tuesday morning.

“I just got a call from a friend of mine” explaining the problem, Bisignano said. “I have had that happen before where people had hacked in and posted stuff there. This happened about a year ago, too. So I just need to reset the password. I don’t know how they do it. I am not smart enough to know how they do it.”

Asked if he was looking at pornography himself, Bisignano replied, “No, no.”

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The status update has been deleted from Bisignano’s Facebook site, although the incident prompted some online jokes on a political website known as Iowa .Gif- t Shop and a Tweet asking, “Where is the petition to clean up @iowademocrats social media?”

Ron Parker, staff director of the Iowa Senate Democratic Caucus, said the caucus staff performs some administrative functions, such as the posting of legislative newsletters, on Democratic senators’ official Facebook pages.

“However, we (do) not perform any functions on Democratic Senators’ personal Facebook pages,” Parker said. He added, “The staff does not provide any technical guidance to Senators regarding passwords or other security questions.”