Saturday, 2 February 2013

Twitter Hacked 250,000 users account get effectd.


Heya,
Today's Biggest news is Twitter is hacked. If you are on Twitter then please change your account password. Twitter tells that roughly 250,000 users could have comprised regarded from the hack, with the hackers attaining access to usernames, emails, session tokens and encrypted version from passwords.

Twitter came across strange access patterns this past week that chaired them to describe illegitimate access attacks to Twitter accounts. The social media giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.
But it discovered that the attackers may have gained access to usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users. Twitter has reset the pilfered passwords and sent emails advising users that they'll have to create a new one. Twitter says:

As a precautionary security measure, we have reset passwords and revoked session tokens for these accounts. If your account was one of them, you will have recently received (or will shortly) an email from us at the address associated with your Twitter account notifying you that you will need to create a new password. Your old password will not work when you try to log in to Twitter.
Well You can read further on Twitter Blog, If you don't wanna loose your account then only for safety purpose change your password right now.


1 comment:

  1. Most likely facebook data also compromised many twitter users use fb as well and the email id are same

    ReplyDelete

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