Twitter candidly accepts that the support tools were hacked

Posted by Abbas ||

January 6, 2009 ||

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This is a follow-up post about the recently published article on Twitter Account Hacks. The latest post on Twitter Blog addresses the issue of the havoc caused on high-profile (hacked) Twitter accounts. The post candidly accepts that their own support tools were hacked because of which 33 Twitter-ers lost control of their accounts to the hackers.

As expected, Twitter reacted quickly to these attacks and pulled the support tool down and stated they will come back online only once they are safe and secure.

Techcrunch reported that these hacks track back to someone called ‘Gmz’ on a site named DigitalGangster. Gmz claims that the source had posted the twitter account information after obtaining it. Of course this information was quickly taken off the Digital Gangster forums, perhaps not before others had their hands on it.

Also, Twitter announced that the open authentication protocol, OAuth will be released in Beta this month. Though the new release will offer added security on third-party Twitter applications, It wouldn’t have stopped the phishing attack or the account hacks that happened over the weekend.

Twitter is doing whatever is necessary to secure your account information, however, as users you should take extra caution when you know twitter accounts are under attack.

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