Twitter accounts of 30 celebrities hacked
More than thirty celebrities and organizations - President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Bill O’Riley, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and Fox News - had their twitter accounts hijacked on Monday (RLSLOG is also on Twitter!). Giving the information, the microblog site said that the hacking attack led to bogus and inapt messages being posted on their accounts. In this latest security problem for Twitter, the sham messages Fox News Twitter included comments about Bill O’Reilly’s sexuality, and Britney Spears’ private parts, among others. Rick Sanchez had a posting about drugs on his account. A social-networking blog site, Twitter allows users to send status updates, or “tweets,” from cell phones, instant messaging services and Facebook, in not more than 140 characters.
The company said that its own internal support tools had been used to hack the accounts. The support tools - which are used by the company’s support team for helping users in editing e-mail addresses associated with their Twitter account and other such things - were used by the hacker to compromise the hijacked accounts. The hacking of accounts followed a nasty phishing scam on Twitter, over the weekend. According to the site, during the spam, regular Twitter users could possibly have been tricked into logging on to a page masked as the Twitter front page.
Source: Topnews
woohoo?
petty crimes get you nowhere
omfg oO
so the attention seeking, press grabbing wh0res got a little more limelight than they bargained for
…. my heart bleeds for them….. no PR is bad PR guys LOL
I bet some of the comments were probably true, and the sort of things people laughed their a$$es off when they saw them
i am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today
hah brilliant, a few screenshots here: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/05/celebrity-twitter-accounts-hacked
We don't really need a twitter for RLSLOG, we've got RSS feeds
that's funny as. People WAYYY to serious about digital information in this day and age.. if you dont want hackers, make better software/platforms…
lol makes me laugh how these idiots on these types of sites keep getting hacked, why put all your life on a webpage to be hacked, copied, and abused, when will people learn about these social sites. its like telling everyone where u bank etc. i blame the russians….lol
Lol. OWn3D !
Oh snap Barack Obama is one of my followers and also one of the people I'm following … Twitter sucks though kinda boring.
twitter sucks.
F**K Twitter,… you know they have the right to sell on the personal details of their entire userbase anyway!
add me on twitter
http://www.twitter.com/Zonozi
Serves them right for trusting in web 2.0 trash.