Microblogging site Twitter has been hacked, affecting accounts of 250,000 users and prompting the online social networking site to ask Tweeters to reset their passwords. Hackers accessed user names and e-mail addresses of Twitter users by exploiting a Java vulnerability, according to Twitter’s blog post on Friday. Twitter’s director of information security, Bob Lord, said [...]
Twitter Goes Down, Company Denies It Was Hacked
June 22, 2012 | Posted by
The Twitterverse was struck with terror yesterday, as the hundreds of millions of users were denied service from the social media site. Following a day of crashes for both the online and mobile clients, Twitter released a statement explaining that the service was shut down due to a software bug that had worked its way [...]
