Yikes is right, wondering if they have my email. DAMN RUSSIAN hackers!
Evan
· 11 months ago
Yeah, this is scary. I'm off to change my password right now.
Maxi Malone
· 11 months ago
It comes down to the same that problem that will always exist - Hackers!
NaughtyReviews
· 11 months ago
No! No! Not our Twitter! Is nothing sacred? Leave Twitter alone!
Jim
· 11 months ago
Nice little free PR for Twitter, regardless. Inside job?
John McElhenney
· 11 months ago
Okay so what I'd like to know before I give my twitter ID and password to one more API is... Can we get an API code that we can use instead of our Password. Facebook does this and it seems to work. I have been asked for my password too many times by too many services to not get a little wiggy about this.
I'm not one of the famous, but I've gotten pinged by the blogspot twitter virus/phishing scam 4 times now. I captured some of the thoughts here: http://bit.ly/twitter_virus
Thanks for the inside story! Another Well done Mashable!
chris
· 11 months ago
I think that everytime someone seems to call something that is clearly 'cracking' hacking instead ticks off just about every pure hacker on the web. I wish some people could get a clue that there is a difference between phishing, cracking, and hacking. Hackers, believe it or not, are most often the good guys. They help to create new programs on the web and languages that help us to do more of the kewl things that we want to do. Crackers and phishers are malicious little vermon.
Stardustman
· 11 months ago
Definitely an inside job. Intentionally or not. Systems are always run by humans at the end of the day... The school scene from War Games springs to mind...
Jean Ghalo
· 11 months ago
well, it happens, once you go public you are exposed, so that's what happened i think.
Anon
· 11 months ago
The attack could have been an inside job but more likely the support tools had a vulnerability in them that didn't validate the user right.
U.
· 11 months ago
But if they were stealing the users' passwords, that means they were unencrypted..
U.
· 11 months ago
I think this - "it’s probably a good time to change your password" - will not work then.
So either the sentence I've quoted is wrong or they know the passwords ;-)
U
· 11 months ago
I hope, they do not use md5 ;-)
The Q
· 11 months ago
I wrote a blog post about famous Twitter accounts I'd like to hack:
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I'm not one of the famous, but I've gotten pinged by the blogspot twitter virus/phishing scam 4 times now. I captured some of the thoughts here: http://bit.ly/twitter_virus
Thanks for the inside story! Another Well done Mashable!
humans at the end of the day... The school scene from War Games springs to mind...
So either the sentence I've quoted is wrong or they know the passwords ;-)
http://www.theqspeaks.com/2009/01/twitter-accou...