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55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked, Passwords Leaked

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

MojoKid writes "Tens of thousands of Twitter accounts have been compromised in a recent hack attack in which more than 55,000 passwords were leaked and posted to Pastebin by anonymous hackers. Most of the accounts supposedly belonged to spammers, and there were many duplicate entries, Twitter officials pointed out. However, to play it safe, you should probably change your Twitter password ASAP."

5 of 66 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Bad Systems Design? by jhoegl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, they just tried "12345" on all the accounts.
    I think they saw it in a movie once.

  2. Re:Why am I not surprised? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I certainly am surprised. I thought they had more than 55,000 users. Maybe there are only 55,000 unique passwords amongst their users?

  3. Re:looks like pretty low-value accounts by Fwipp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree, clearly not real people. Those passwords are way too strong.

  4. Caring about it by fizzer06 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try as hard as I can, still don't care about twits and their tweets.

  5. Re:Think I was hit by Cinder6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks for the suggestion, but that just showed up as a bunch of asterisks for me. (Maybe that would be a good password?)

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