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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XprNPosted:

dominik12 so stupid twitter its made so you can now every thing someone does thts so stupid ppl waster there time go get a job


Do U EVEN SCHOOL?

Activez-Posted:

TopNotchKiNG Well doesn't suprise me, Twitter is actually steadily climbing, so more attention has been put on it. PSN and other Communitys have been the subject of recent hacking's, Microsoft seems to be the only one smooth sailing.


It's M$ behind the hacking then. Lol. Even if M$ was to be hacked they would lose so much money in repairing it all. Accounts, credit cards, personal info, etc.

ElitexChaosPosted:

Lol, twitter deserves to be shut down.

TopNotchKiNGPosted:

MTV What did they gain from hacking Twitter? Nothing but accounts.


Possibly big Twitter accounts, like youtube celebrities and such.
Those could easily be sold off to some ranodms who think there cool for say having the Machinima Twitter or something. That and also just to display there power and show that it can be done and Twitter needs to work on there security.

ToesPosted:

Wow, hope mine wasnt hacked :O

TopNotchKiNGPosted:

Well doesn't suprise me, Twitter is actually steadily climbing, so more attention has been put on it. PSN and other Communitys have been the subject of recent hacking's, Microsoft seems to be the only one smooth sailing.

KixaPosted:

i hope they shut down its a stupid website

dominik12Posted:

so stupid twitter its made so you can now every thing someone does thts so stupid ppl waster there time go get a job

PlusnetPosted:

What did they gain from hacking Twitter? Nothing but accounts.

PMLPosted:

dont like twitter dont have an account so im fine


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