A Suffolk County politician claims his account was hacked after revealing that he followed Duke-student-turned-porn-star Belle Knox on Twitter.

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The New York Post reported on Thursday County Executive Steve Bellone said his Twitter account was hacked following the discovery of who he was following.

The 19-year-old porn actress was one of only 267 people on the politician's following list.

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Bellone is a married father of three who is up for re-election next year. He insisted he has no idea how his account was linked to Knox.

Knox, whose legal name is Miriam Weeks, was outed by a student at Duke University this year for her involvement in the sex industry.

A spokeswoman for Bellone, Vanessa Baird-Streeter, offers a statement: "County Executive Bellone's Twitter account, which is operated by his staff, has been hacked and an obscene Twitter account was subsequently followed...A formal complaint has been filed with Twitter and to the third-party software used to assist in managing the account. His staff has instituted stricter security protocols to ensure an incident like this does not happen in the future."

The spokeswoman also sad that "law enforcement authorities have been notified and the Suffolk County Police Department is currently investigating."

There seems to be no evidence that Bellone exchanged personal messages with the porn star, the New York Post reported.

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