blog.twitter.com - 1/6/2009
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This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been "hacked" including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama (who has not been Twittering since becoming the president elect due to transition issues). We immediately locked down the accounts and investigated the issue. Rick, ...
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Obama's hacked Twitter a warning?
The Swamp —
by Frank James
As one of those who felt badly for President-elect Barack Obama that he was going to be made to give up his Blackberry, I have to say that yesterday's report that his Twitter account was compromised seemed to make the point for those who worry that his use of the latest communications technology could be problematic for security as well as other reasons.
As was reported on Twitter's blog Monday morning:
This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been "hacked" including prominent Twitter-ers like ...
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techPresident —
... . How'd it happen? Twitter's Biz Stone blogs that someone "hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account," meaning, it seems, the whole Twitter system was compromised. Still, given that @barackobama has been silent since election day, it was nice to hear from him again. ...
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