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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imgurPosted:

Well, nobody I know got hacked, thank god.

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.

CentPosted:

I heard Burger Kings twitter go hacked.

xPhotographPosted:

Reduction
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

SOGPosted:

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!

BradPosted:

MTV
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MTV
Teh 250k damn /:


Not really that much. It was probably a lot of inactive accounts too.


Hopefully it was just inactive accounts.

Must have been a surprise to anyone with an active account who got hacked.


Yea, Twitter accounts aren't really that hard to get back.


But still, i'd be annoyed if I found out my account was hacked through no error of my own...

PlusnetPosted:

Compliance
MTV
Teh 250k damn /:


Not really that much. It was probably a lot of inactive accounts too.


Hopefully it was just inactive accounts.

Must have been a surprise to anyone with an active account who got hacked.


Yea, Twitter accounts aren't really that hard to get back.

PGAPosted:

MTV
Teh 250k damn /:


Not really that much. It was probably a lot of inactive accounts too.


Hopefully it was just inactive accounts.

Must have been a surprise to anyone with an active account who got hacked.

PlusnetPosted:

Teh 250k damn /:


Not really that much. It was probably a lot of inactive accounts too.

imgurPosted:

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


Thank god, my 18 follower account made it.


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