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ayme — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:36:54 -0000

people have to learn to use stronger passwords, with symbols in it for example. people are too easy with passwords for their accounts, ah easy to remember etc, but great for crackers to guess

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diszk — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:02:46 -0000

lol what a creative people:)

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Kun — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:46:29 -0000

Very bad news indeed. Just found my Twitter account has completely vanished! No trace of my of friends lists, nor can I login... :( This is bad.

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Steve — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:46:18 -0000

I'd also like to know which link in the chain gave way (or was given away) to allow this to happen. Security issues have been an almost daily concern these days across here, techcrunch, etc. It is a little alarming how easily they can be compromised given what some people invest in these sites. I use this* digital security site to keep my activities safe/private.

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Adult Television — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:12:06 -0000

how did they get access to those twitter accounts, was it a case of bruteforcing or a security hole in twitter.

Fortunately the link being posted looks spammy enough, so I don't think most people woudl click it.

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Mario — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:54:27 -0000

This is quite bad news.. That spammers are getting all the way to twitter and doing stuff like this, quite unacceptable. I hope they will fix problems as this for the future.

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Dom Sparks — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:02:26 -0000

Twitter account hacks don't surprise me in the least. I don't know how this was done, but it's not helped by the fact that people are very trusting of twitter-related sites that ask for twitter passwords, regardless of whether they are secure. In general, many web 2.0 sites do not use the 'Padlock' thing anymore, and it's no longer possible for your typical user to tell whether a site is using a secure connection for your credentials (for example, Facebook & Twitter use SSL, whereas Digg's login is plaintext), nor do we know anything about how twitter-related services keep your password secure, or how they communicate with Twitter (http or https). Stuff like this is bound to happen for so long as people give their trust so willingly. My advice, firstly, use a completely different password for all your accounts, and secondly, avoid using services unless they are known to be both trustworthy and secure....

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fmckinnon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:29:56 -0000

Yikes, that's crazy - thanks for the heads up - off to change my p/w.

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Sam — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:07:14 -0000

Is it weird that all the hacked accounts seem to have uncommon letters in them? All the ones in the example above have a Z in them, and when I did a TwitterSearch they all had Z, X, J etc. in the name. Coincidence?

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Adam Ostrow — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:55:08 -0000

thanks for that ... updated the post with your info.

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Ari Herzog — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:51:23 -0000

Interesting. If you run a whois search on the domain - http://whois.domaintools.co... - you see it has a WhoisGuard address of "8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 - 732" which when googled indicates a lot of scams. Not to mention, this domain is apparently expiring in May; so maybe the hacking was a means of bring new investment?

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swag — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:50:43 -0000

In a way, it's good for Twitter. Spam and abuse is the validation of your medium.

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Ivan Kirigin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:45:22 -0000

It is much more likely that it is a XSS attack than a password theft issue. You can currently access protected updates by grabbing the stream using an HTTP GET to http://twitter.com/statuses... from javascript running on any page a signed in user visits. This might have been solved, but not as far as I know.

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Rovaal — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:36:31 -0000

Hi Adam and thanks for sharing, I had a good laugh!

Those Twitter dudes sure don't look like no 23 y.o. female to me :)

Thanks again,

Rov.

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mashable — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:33:26 -0000

I have no new info on this, but is it possible that clicking the link launches some kind of XSS attack, the same as the one in January?

http://mashable.com/2009/01...

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Eric — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:22:41 -0000

ouch, that is bad news

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David Carr — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:18:36 -0000

Could it be that perhaps they were sent via SMS spoofing instead of actually hacking the accounts?

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Damon Edwards — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:17:06 -0000

All it takes is for one of these Twitter mashup clients that saves your login info to sell that info to the highest bidder. I think it's always important to know and trust where you login to any service.