"Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not that there's anything wrong with that) and Britney Spears' made a lewd post about her anatomy. Rick Sanchez, the Twitter loving CNN anchor, says he's "high on crack and might not be coming into work today."
The Fox tweet was deleted an hour after it was posted, so the password may not have been changed. Screen shots below. This can't be good for Twitter. It will be good for the people calling for more secure, standards based authentication on Twitter and elsewhere around the web." - readwrite web
From Twitter's blog
"The issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend. These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can't remember or get stuck. We considered this a very serious breach of security and immediately took the support tools offline. We'll put them back only when they're safe and secure."
I am not my tweets.
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Did she tell you to say that? Damn. lol
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