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