Update: twitter accuses celebrities hack on the individual ‘
“The issue with these 33 bills is different from phishing fraud to twitter users this weekend, to the post twitter blog explained. These accounts have been compromised by a person hacked into some of our team-support tools are used to help people do things like change the email address associated with their twitter account when they can not remember, or get stuck. We consider this a very serious breach of security, and immediately took the support tools offline. We put them back only when they are safe. ”
The same hackers responsible for damage to a number of the most popular twitter account, including those belonging to pop singer Britney Spears, the media, Fox News, and President-elect Barack Obama.
Twitter said, however, that phishing fraud - which uses a message of twitter friends to fraudulently forcing users to enter their user names and passwords to bogus logon screen - is under control. “Our on-call group was able to attend to this matter quickly and not allow too many people from the impact, giggle in the blog to read. “Our support team will certainly have a busy week, because we throw a bunch of passwords, only to have just in case.”
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