busybeeburns Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Twitter becomes latest hacking victim - 250,000 passwords stolen A quarter of a million Twitter users have had their accounts hacked in the latest of a string of high-profile internet security breaches. Twitter's information security director Bob Lord said about 250,000 users' passwords had been stolen, as well as usernames, emails and other data. Affected users have had passwords invalidated and have been sent emails informing them. Lord said the attack "was not the work of amateurs". He said it appeared similar to recent attacks on the New York Times and others. The US newspaper reported this week that their computer systems had been breached by China-based hackers . Mr Lord said in a blog post Twitter had discovered unauthorised attempts to access data held by the website, including one attack that was identified and stopped moments after it was detected. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident," he wrote. Mr Lord did not say who had carried out the attack, but added: "The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organisations have also been recently similarly attacked." "For that reason we felt that it was important to publicise this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the internet safer for all users." Internet security specialist Graham Cluley warned Twitter's announcement that emails would be sent to users may prompt a spate of spam emails "phishing" for sensitive information. He says people should be cautious about opening emails which appear to be from Twitter. "You have to be careful if you get hold of one of these emails because, of course, it could equally be a phishing attack - it could be someone pretending to be Twitter. "So, log into the Twitter site as normal and try and log in to your account and, if there's a problem, that's when you actually have to try and reset your password." On Thursday the New York Times linked the attack to a story it published alleging relatives of former Premier Wen Jiabao controlled assets worth billions of dollars. China's foreign ministry dismissed the New York Times' accusations as "groundless" and "totally irresponsible". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05DONuweOxI]Twitter Hacked Up To 250,000 Passwords Taken - YouTube[/ame] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coeurli Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 :wreck: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tash Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 They didn't sent me an email so I guess I'm safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Same here, not that I use my Twitter account but it's always good to check when these things are reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Just be careful not to use 1 password for everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blakexy1125 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Im tired of all these hacktivists at first i was like oh okay thats fine but now they just abuse there power and try and take down websites as a joke i really want the government to start taking this alot more seriously and start arresting people for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Im tired of all these hacktivists at first i was like oh okay thats fine but now they just abuse there power and try and take down websites as a joke i really want the government to start taking this alot more seriously and start arresting people for this. ohhhhh boy The people that did this are highly unlikely to be 'hacktivists'. You use that word but I do not think it means what you think it means. Hacktivists usually have some kind of cause, there appears to be no political cause here. More likely it's just hackers stealing people's personal information to gain access to more details and possibly sell them off for profit or use the data to do other stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Hoping to collect email addresses, user-names & passwords to try on various other sites to see if they get lucky and get any other hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blakexy1125 Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Yeah sorry for the misuse but i am tired of these hackers. The government really needs to take a step towards arresting these people. but every time they try to do anything on the internet it also trys to take away our freedoms unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Yeah sorry for the misuse but i am tired of these hackers. The government really needs to take a step towards arresting these people. but every time they try to do anything on the internet it also trys to take away our freedoms unfortunately. Which governement would that be? I can't really see the US governement arresting some chinese/russian based hackers any time soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blakexy1125 Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Which governement would that be? I can't really see the US governement arresting some chinese/russian based hackers any time soon Hmm good point. Maybe they can agree on something at the UN. But if governments get together to take down hackers itll be good for everyone and i dont see how and why governments would not agree on something like that. Its a crime that needs to be taken care of in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Burger King's account has now been suspended Burger King Twitter account 'hacked' with McDonald's logo US fast-food company Burger King has said its Twitter account may have been hacked, after its profile picture was changed to a McDonald's logo. The background picture on the account showed Fish McBites and some posts contained racial slurs, obscenities and references to drugs. The firm says it asked Twitter to suspend the account and @BurgerKing has not posted since 13:15 EST (18:15 GMT). Burger King says it will post an apology on its Facebook page. The account tweeted that the company had been sold to rival hamburger chain McDonald's. "We just got sold to McDonald's! Look for McDonald's in a hood near you," one post read. It also posted messages such as: "If I catch you at a Wendys, we're fightin!" The tweets stopped after a little more than an hour. Meanwhile, McDonald's tweeted in response to the apparent hack: "We empathize with our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking." It is not known who might be responsible for the breach. The development comes in the wake of a scandal across at least 12 European countries, in which it emerged that some products labelled as beef contained horsemeat. Burger King has said it has cut ties with some of its suppliers as a precaution, in the wake of the scandal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21500175 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xencios Posted August 28, 2013 Share Posted August 28, 2013 Just be careful not to use 1 password for everything Whoops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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