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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skeletorbxPosted:

I could care less. About twitter
I think its a stupid website

OdinPosted:

CPx1989 this is sad...why would you hack twitter what would be the point


exactly its not like there are credit cards on some accounts...

ImNotPhlegmAnymoreOKPosted:

Glad that they could resolve it though.

CPx1989Posted:

this is sad...why would you hack twitter what would be the point

J-E-T-SPosted:

Ohhh Twitter !