Celebrity Twitter accounts hacked
Twitter accounts for Britney Spears, Bill O'Reilly, and even President-elect Barack Obama were compromised by hackers who gained access to site support tools. While this problem has been corrected, an unrelated phishing scam emerged a few days before that ended in hundreds of regular Twitter users revealing their usernames and passwords to a separate group of hackers. This article has the details on both attacks and how to avoid them in the future.
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This story published in IAB SmartBrief on 01/07/2009
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