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Twitter plays down hacker breach, 55,000 accounts posted online

Twitter plays down hacker breach, 55,000 accounts posted online Created by MG1 on May 10, 2012

Twitter has launched an investigation after the popular micro-blogging service was breached and details of 55,000 accounts were published on the Internet by hackers. Despite this, it appears that the spoils were spammer accounts with the published usernames and passwords being of no real value.
In an announcement on their Twitter Communications account, they wrote "we're looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts." They also noted in a separate posting that the 55,000 strong list of usernames and passwords contained over 20,000 duplicates of what they said were "suspended spam accounts and incorrect login credentials." »read more

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