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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SOGPosted:

Zwrq
Hillin I've never actually been on Twitter.


Give it a shot dude!


It's pretty cool just to follow people and see what they are up to, that's about it though :P

imgurPosted:

Hillin I've never actually been on Twitter.


Give it a shot dude!

imgurPosted:

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Zwrq Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.


I haven't checked mines probably one of the unlucky ones


One of mine was, I never used it though.


Well that's good.

PlusnetPosted:

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Zwrq Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.


I haven't checked mines probably one of the unlucky ones


One of mine was, I never used it though.

imgurPosted:

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Zwrq Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.


I haven't checked mines probably one of the unlucky ones


Lol same, I wouldn't care at all though.


I'd be mad...

imgurPosted:

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Zwrq Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.


I haven't checked mines probably one of the unlucky ones


I hope not.

SOGPosted:

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Zwrq Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.


I haven't checked mines probably one of the unlucky ones


Lol same, I wouldn't care at all though.

KelcyPosted:

Zwrq Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.


I haven't checked mines probably one of the unlucky ones

SOGPosted:

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phlegm
0621 Good thing credit cards aren't on Twitter!


Yea, this is nothing compared to PSN getting hacked either lol... I'm glad I wasn't one of these accounts, but I changed my password just in case :p


LOL I remember when PS got hacked!


yeah me too i laughed so hard but afterwords i felt bad


Now Xbox gets hacked, jeez.


I didn't hear about xbox getting hacked?


Look at my post in Breaking news if you wish, it got closed but eh. (I believe it's true due to recent offline kickings)

SynybunPosted:

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0621 Good thing credit cards aren't on Twitter!


Yea, this is nothing compared to PSN getting hacked either lol... I'm glad I wasn't one of these accounts, but I changed my password just in case :p


LOL I remember when PS got hacked!


yeah me too i laughed so hard but afterwords i felt bad


Now Xbox gets hacked, jeez.


I didn't hear about xbox getting hacked?


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