Twitter #Hacked

theodp writes "Earlier this week, hackers gained access to Twitter's internal systems and stole information, compromising 250,000 Twitter accounts before the breach was stopped. Reporting the incident on the company's official blog, Twitter's manager of network security did not specify the method by which hackers penetrated its system, but mentioned vulnerabilities related to Java in Safari and Firefox, and echoed Homeland Security's advisory that users disable Java in their browsers. Sure, blame everything on Larry Ellison. Looks like bad things do happen in threes — Twitter's report comes on the heels of disclosures of hacking attacks on the WSJ and NY Times."

Comments

Safari and Firefox

[icebike]

Who reads twitter with a web browser anymore? All quarter million of these accounts?
Or was that avenue used to gain access on a server to a password databases or what?

TFA says

hackers gained access to Twitter's internal systems and stole information, compromising 250,000 accounts

They then reference an advisory from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that users disable Java on their computers.

Maybe Twitter should follow DHS?

This sounds like half the story. And press accounts aren't much more informative. Seems everyone is playing this java angle
pretty close to the vest.

Re:Safari and Firefox

[93 Escort Wagon]

Yeah, reading tweets on a little phone screen. That's a step forward, yes it is.