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What the Hell is Going on With Twitter's Security? By panda88

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Source: Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums -

Jul 15, 2009

Summary

Wow, that really is a ton of egg on Twitter's face.

The revelation from Techcrunch's Michael Arrington that at least 300 highly confidential, internal Twitter documents had been stolen by a hacker and sent to his inbox should have been a shocking one. Unfortunately for the microblogging platform, it wasn't - Twitter is on its way to becoming synonymous with "terrible security," in particular on the part of its administrators and back-end staff. Back in May, the social network's admin panel was compromised by a hacking known as "Croll Hacker," who claimed that he was able to hack one of Twitter's admin accounts by guessing the password - which was, simply, "happiness."

Now, that same hacker is claiming to have successfully "hacked" Twitter accounts, Gmail accounts, and dozens of other network logins and passwords belonging to Twitter employees and even co-founder Evan Williams and his wife. He claims to have collected hundreds of pages of confidential documents, including information on Twitter's business plan (world-shattering shock: they're gonna make money th ...Read the full article

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