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February 2, 2013 06:37 am GMT
According to Twitter, it was hacked and 250K useres were affected, so they received emails from the company to change their password. This is not the first time this has happened, but this time it was a real hack, rather than a blend of real hacks and “false alarm” blast of emails like last time. Here’s what Twitter wrote on its blog about it: This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords for approximately 250,000 users. What does this mean? We don’t really know, but Twitter thinks it’s a pretty “sophisticated” hack: This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. Way to start off our weekends, Twitter. Who knows if you’ll even get the email from Twitter about it, I know that I filter all of those things out. I find it really confusing when anything like this happens, because it feels like companies try to diminish the impact caused by seeing sad tweets from your friends about how they got hacked. I even had one person tell me that they felt like they weren’t cool enough because they didn’t get hacked. Twitter also suggests this course of action, which sounds like a way to slither away from blame if you ask me: We also echo the advisory from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and security experts to encourage users to disable Java on their computers in their browsers. Instead, or in addition to, just go change your password. We’re all cool enough to get hacked. The number, 250K affected, seems a bit too tidy to me, and I’m not saying that Twitter is lying, I’m just saying that it’s better to be safe than sorry. [Photo credit: Flickr]
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Just Go Change Your Twitter Password Now
According to Twitter, it was hacked and 250K useres were affected, so they received emails from the company to change their password. This is not the first time this has happened, but this time it was a real hack, rather than a blend of real hacks and “false alarm” blast of emails like last time. Here’s what Twitter wrote on its blog about it: This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords for approximately 250,000 users. What does this mean? We don’t really know, but Twitter thinks it’s a pretty “sophisticated” hack: This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. Way to start off our weekends, Twitter. Who knows if you’ll even get the email from Twitter about it, I know that I filter all of those things out. I find it really confusing when anything like this happens, because it feels like companies try to diminish the impact caused by seeing sad tweets from your friends about how they got hacked. I even had one person tell me that they felt like they weren’t cool enough because they didn’t get hacked. Twitter also suggests this course of action, which sounds like a way to slither away from blame if you ask me: We also echo the advisory from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and security experts to encourage users to disable Java on their computers in their browsers. Instead, or in addition to, just go change your password. We’re all cool enough to get hacked. The number, 250K affected, seems a bit too tidy to me, and I’m not saying that Twitter is lying, I’m just saying that it’s better to be safe than sorry. [Photo credit: Flickr]Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/H7Le48aoJj0/
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