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Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit

Posted by samzenpus on from the little-troublemaker dept.

bennyboy64 writes "An Australian teen has caused havoc on Twitter by discovering an exploit that hit thousands of users, including Barack Obama's press secretary, and resulted in the tweets of a former British PM's wife linking to hardcore porn, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Pearce Delphin, who is studying his last year at high school, said that he was surprised that 'so many famous people got infected.'"

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  1. Who caused it? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 0, Troll

    The guy who discovered the exploit, or the coding process which allowed it?

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