Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears hacked
The Twitter accounts of US president-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears and other prominent figures were hacked on Monday and fake messages sent out in their names on the micro-blogging service.
The Twitter team discovered that 33 Twitter accounts had been hacked. This include Barack Obama, Rick Sanchez and Britney Spears among the few. Upon noticing this, they immediately locked down the accounts and investigated the issue. Rick, Barack, and others are now back in control of their accounts.
The Message
The message from the fake Obama invited recipients to take a survey and win 500 dollars worth of gas while the CNN anchor purportedly told followers that he was “high on crack” and would probably not be coming into work on Monday.
What happened?
These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools the Twitter support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can’t remember or get stuck. They considered this a very serious breach of security and immediately took the support tools offline.
What to watch out for?
The Twitter team is planning to release a closed beta of the Open Authentication Protocol, OAuth. This is mainly aimed at third party applications built on the Twitter API who access their data and at the same time protect their account credentials.
Twitter in News
It’s a hectic week for the Twitter Team. Twitter was also the target of a Phishing attack over the weekend in which scamsters attempted to obtain passwords and other personal information from Twitter users. Not a nice way to start the New Year!!!
Is your Twitter Account safe? Login and check it out. Make sure to change your password and if you are able to do it, you are safe. Otherwise, go for the Twitter Help.
Via: Yahoo News, Twitter Blog
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Comments
Wow, and this is after the farce of the phishing scam a few days ago!!
All Things Online´s last blog post..Apple to sell songs without DRM restrictions
@Lax, agreed. Nothing is impossible for hackers. You fix something and they break something else 
@All Things Online, Yes. This is after the Phishing attack! lol.
@Nihar, who knows? Lets keep the fingers crossed 
Thats expected dude
Nothing is impossbile to hackers