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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."

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  1. Not just Twitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many people use the same password on several services?

  2. Re:Why the hell would twitter even KNOW my passwor by EvanED · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good thing these passwords weren't obtained by attacking Twitter's servers directly then.

  3. Re:Update: No recent hack, just repackaged old dat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh dear, is this the same Adrian Lamo who turned in Bradley Manning over the Wikileaks incident?

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs/

    I don't know why anyone would ever talk to this guy again for the rest of his life.

    I'd talk to him. He reported an Intelligence officer with access to sensitive information who was planning on leaking it because he was pissed off about the military's policy towards homosexuals. If you bother to read the conversations it's pretty fucking obvious that Manning had an axe to grind, went into the systems and dug up any and all information he thought might make the military look bad, and then leaked it. After the fact, he tried to claim that he was "blowing the whistle" on supposed war crimes which he never provided evidence to support.

    If I was Lamo I'd have done the same thing. Manning was using him, he lied to him about his motivations in order to get assistance in leaking the material. Had I been told that there was War Crime evidence, I'd have been more than happy to help with a leak, but upon discovering that I was being sucked into some kind of personal vendetta against "the man" I'd also have gone to the authorities with the info.

    Note that I am not defending the military's policy towards gays here, I think it's stupid. But it's not like it was some kind of secret when Manning signed up, either, and it's certainly not justification to sell out your countrymen who have little or no ability to influence or change such policies.