WHID 2009-32: 750 Twitter Accounts Hacked

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Twitter reports in a blog entry that 750 accounts were hacked. The hacker posted messages linking to a porn webcam. While Twitter did not disclose how the attack was carried out, the suggested remediation hints that the account passwords were guessed, probably using a brute force attack.

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