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 in the blog that a hacking incident that was discovered and immediately warded off was actually a large-scale cyberattack. Lord said the hacking was the work of sophisticated hackers.
Affected users cannot log in to their accounts until they have reset their passwords as instructed through e-mail. Session tokens were also revoked…
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