Twitter vs Hackers. Who Will Win?
It’s not a secret if some popular social networking sites are being the target of hacking. Now it’s the Twitter’s turn. But, don’t worry, there is no secret account related to Twitter’s services which is to be the target. The hacking system focuses on Twitter’s employees. The hackers stole the data from Twitter related to its internal documents. Croll, the hacker has done his mission since May. Croll disturbed an email account of one of Twitter’s executives. From this action, Croll could access some documents via Google Apps account.
The documents which are stolen are related to company’s meetings. In addition, he could know the details of Twitter’s security system. Croll also knew Twitter’s plans for its TV programs. After hacking, Croll published the documents into some new outlets.
Seeing this condition, many Twitter’s subscribers are panicked. Responding to it, Stone, a representative of Twitter, said that we should not worry about it. The hacker did not steal subscribers’ accounts. Actually, there is a screenshot of a customer which’s stolen, but Twitter has contacted to him to change the password. Stone added that this hacking is not related to Twitter’s services, but related to a hacking to an employee which’s followed with the stolen of company’s secret documents.
Therefore, if you are one of the subscribers of Twitter, don’t worry.
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