Twitter hacked, up to 250,000 accounts compromised

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2013 is already starting to be a bad year for security, when Twitter today reported that their security systems were breached and information for around 250,000 accounts may have been accessed. Twitter's Director of Information Security Bob Lord says that usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted passwords were potentially accessed, but "nothing more serious than that."

As Twitter's stored passwords are encrypted there's little chance that the hackers could reveal the actual plain text password, but as a "precautionary security measure" Twitter has reset the passwords and revoked session tokens for all affected accounts.

Twitter managed to discover the attack while it was in to process of accessing unauthorized data, which meant they could shut it down before any more data was accessed.

Twitter is working with law enforcement agencies to try and find the people responsible for the recent attack, while also telling people to disable Java on their computers.


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ChugJugPosted:

O e of them was my accoumt :)

SovietRussiaPosted:

In the up coming years these large corporations are going top have to become more careful with their info. It's already a bad problem in the world today.

xPhotographPosted:

thats why i dont have one lol

CentPosted:

Zwrq
Centurial
MTV
Soulful I've never actually been on Twitter.


It's not that great.


Yeah, gets boring.


It does get Facebook like after some time, unfortunately...


I don't like Facebook. I used to have one 2 years ago, got really stupid so i just deactivated it.

imgurPosted:

Centurial
MTV
Soulful I've never actually been on Twitter.


It's not that great.


Yeah, gets boring.


It does get Facebook like after some time, unfortunately...

imgurPosted:

Centurial
Zwrq
Hillin I've never actually been on Twitter.


Give it a shot dude!


I don't know how people get into it a lot.


I use it, not as much as Imgur, Reddit, or TTG though...

CentPosted:

MTV
Soulful I've never actually been on Twitter.


It's not that great.


Yeah, gets boring.

PlusnetPosted:

Soulful I've never actually been on Twitter.


It's not that great.

SOGPosted:

Centurial
Zwrq
Hillin I've never actually been on Twitter.


Give it a shot dude!


I don't know how people get into it a lot.


Yeah, same. I just made one once for my old youtube channel, but never used it since.

CentPosted:

Zwrq
Hillin I've never actually been on Twitter.


Give it a shot dude!


I don't know how people get into it a lot.