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Twitter hacked; 250,000 users must reset their passwords |
February 02, 2013
Twitter’s servers have been breached by “extremely sophisticated” hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users, the company said Friday.
Twitter said unusual access patterns led it to identify the attacks, which took place during the past week.
“We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information—usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords—for approximately 250,000 users,” Twitter Director of Information Security Bob Lord said in a blog post.
Twitter reset the passwords and revoked session tokens for the accounts, and said it was emailing the affected users Friday and telling them to reset their passwords.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026895/twitter-hacked-250000-users-must-reset-their-passwords.html
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