Twitter Hacked | Obama, Britney Spears, Bill O Riley, 33 Celebirites Twitter Accounts Hacked | Monday Morning Madness
Twitter has discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been “hacked” including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez, Fox News, Facebook, Huffington Post, Britney Spears, Bill O Riley and Barack Obama. In each case, the hacker assumed the voice of the compromised individuals or companies, making it look like those parties were publishing unsavory comments about themselves. Spears appeared to post about unusual features of her anatomy, Sanchez about using “crack,” and Fox News about what might seem to be surprising romantic tendencies of “Bill O Riley.”
Twitter said that this issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend. These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools of Twitter support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their Twitter account when they can’t remember or get stuck.
What is twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
