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E!Online Official Twitter Account Hijacked By Syrian Electronic Army (#twithackery)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/09/2013 04:29:00 pm

E!Online Official Twitter Account Hijacked By Syrian Electronic Army (#twithackery) Fake Tweet Claimed Justin Bieber is Gay

The massive ongoing twitter hijacking also known as twithackery carried by carried by the infamous pro-Assad group of hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army targeted another high profile twitter account. After the successful hijack of three high profile twitter account of CBS news followed by the hack of BBC and the Associated Press twitter account, now Syrian Electronic Army aka SEA have caught another big fish  that is E! Online -one of the leading resource of entertainment and celebrity gossip news. The official twitter account of E!Online that has over five million followers fallen victim to these dangerous hacker collective group. As per several legitimate sources this high valued twitter account was hacked on Saturday afternoon and subsequently posted several false tweets about a few celebrities, most specifically Justin Bieber. After the successful hijack, exactly like earlier the hacker group started tweeting false message. Among those One tweet read, “Exclusive: Justin Bieber to E!Online: I’m a gay,” followed by a shortlink.  Another read, “Exclusive: Selena Gomez tells E! she will fully supporting Justin in his coming out” [sic], also followed by a shortlink.  (Selena Gomez was Bieber’s girlfriend up until recently).  And another made reference to Angelina Jolie blaming Jordan for “the Syrian refugees’ atrocious conditions.” Here is screen capture of those fake tweets:- 

After this mishap security experts have figured out that many of those links associated with the above fake tweets redirecting users to malicious webpages. So users were urged not to click on the links. Not only the official twitter account, but also the hacking group also managed to infiltrate the E!’s text messaging system, sending hundreds of thousands of subscribers similar messages including an obscene message relating to President Barack Obama. 

While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & CBS; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before E!Online. In the wake of all the recent cyberattacks on news organizations, Twitter has warned media accounts that they will continue to be targets of hackers, and has advised them to take all appropriate steps to further secure their Twitter accounts. 




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USAToday Twitter Account Hacked By Script Kiddies

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/26/2011 04:11:00 pm


The Script Kiddies, which is the same group that recently hacked the NBC Twitter account, struck again Sunday evening. The hacker group, which hacked the @USAToday Twitter account late Sunday evening, used the account to send out spiteful messages daring Twitter to block them again. They also asked Twitter users to vote for what account they should hack next in the tweet below:
“Fox News, Wal-mart, Unilevel, Pfizer, NBC and now USA Today. who’s next? Vote Now!”
The Script Kiddies are the lesser-known splinter group of the famous Anonymous hacking group. On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Script Kiddies hacked the @NBCNews Twitter account and falsely tweeted that a plane had crashed into ground zero. In addition, in July, they hacked the @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account and falsely tweeted that President Obama had been assassinated. The FBI
In the past, The Script Kiddies have used a “keylogger Trojan” to access the official Twitter accounts of news organizations. The computer malware is unknowingly installed on the host’s computer and logs the entries a computer user makes and in turn allows the hacker to easily detect passwords. Early evidence points to a high likelihood that the group used the same tactic to gain access to the USA Today Twitter account.
USA Today has worked with Twitter to regain control of their account and recently tweeted:
 
“@usatoday was hacked and as a result false tweets were sent. We Worked with Twitter to correct it. The account is now back in our control.”



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Popular American Singer-Songwriter Kesha's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/13/2012 11:51:00 pm

Popular American Singer-Songwriter Kesha's Twitter Account Hacked
Again another celebrity became the victim of twitter hacking. Popular American singer-songwriter stylized Ke$ha Twitter account allegedly hacked yesterday. The hacker immediately tweeted the latest song Ke$ha was about to release. Here is the controversial tweet:- "Single out in a couple hours. Ugh so f**kin stressful… wish I could stay on da (the) beach forever.”
The open tweet was seen by more than 3.1 Million follower of Ke$ha. After the singer spotted the false message, she realized her account had been compromised and quickly deleted it. She then posted this explanation:- "animals!! i love u! i got hacked. single is not out YET. promissse you’ll be the first to know!xx"
The twitter account of Ke$ha was verified, so it’s currently unclear if someone outside of Kesha’s inner circle actually managed to gain access to her account. It’s certainly possible that someone she knows and has entrusted her Twitter account password with decided to post the malicious tweet.
Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 




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Twitter Account of Hacktivist Group Anonymous Hacked By 'Rustle League'

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/23/2013 02:01:00 pm

Twitter Account of Hacktivist Group Anonymous Hacked By 'Rustle League'

The scenario of hackers targeting another hacker has became a very common matter, in last two years we have seen many instances of the above matter where a hacker hit another hacker's site, community, blog, forums and so on. Today the story which I will about to discuss is the same matter where infamous hacker community named 'Anonymous' fallen victim. A newly formed hacker group calling them selves "Rustle League" targeted one of the officially recognized twitter account (@Anon_Central) belongs to hacktivist group which have more than 160,000 followers. According to security experts  "the reason Anonymous fell victim is probably human weakness." Or in other word many of twitter accounts get hacked due to choosing week passwords. "Chances are that they followed poor password practices, like using the same password in multiple places or choosing a password that was easy to crack. Everyone should learn better password security from incidents like this - if it can happen to an account run by Anonymous supporters, it could happen to you" said another expert of security firm Sophos. The hack on Anonymous twitter account placed Thursday morning and three hours later, those running the feed tweeted that they had gained back control of their account. 
While talking about attack on Twitter, we would like to remind you that, in this month a sophisticated cyber attack compromised the security system of the social networking giant twitter, where more than 250,000 twitter users have fallen victim. Though the hack of Anonymous twitter account does not resembles to the said matter, but the hack can be considered in the list of twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; where hackers gain temporary access of celebrity and famous twitter accounts. If you did the history we will find the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery. 





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Young Pop Star Justin Bieber's Twitter Account Compromised

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 3/29/2012 12:54:00 am

Young Pop Star Justin Bieber's Twitter account Compromised 
World famous pop singer from Canada, Justin Drew Bieber also enlisted his name among those celebrities whose twitter account get hacked. The attacker has tweeted an unauthorized message in-front of the 19 Million of twitter follower. 
The hacker has tweeted the above message but fortunately that very tweet was immediately deleted. The hashtag "biebermyballs" sounds familiar, it should, same words were tweeted repeatedly from Carly Rae Jepsen's Twitter account after it was hacked several weeks ago. It is not clear if Bieber's account was hacked same person. The hacker responsible for Jepsen's hack was not identified yet. Few days ago another American pop singer "Kesha" twitter a/c get hacked. Same things happen to Teyana Taylor twitter which even caused exposure of few personal photo of this star among those there are few topless pictures.
Not only these two but also we have seen such attacks many times. Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking.



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Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 4/23/2013 11:30:00 pm

Several Twitter Accounts of CBS News (60Minutes, 48Hours & CBSDenver) Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army [#twithackery]

Yet again CBS one of the major commercial broadcasting television network of United States faced cyber attack. First it was hacker collective Anonymous who targeted CBS and managed to hack the TV network of CBS in January last year. The attack was done under the banner of Operation Megaupload. And now CBS have fallen victim of what it called twithackery, where hacker managed to gain temporary access of popular twitter accounts and broadcast fake tweets. This Sunday such twithackery targeted and compromised several twitter account of CBS. Infamous hacker community going by the name of Syrian Electronic Army claimed to have hijacked the twitter accounts of CBS, the list of the hijacked accounts include "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours" which is maintained by CBS news program. Later it has been reported that another twitter account @CBSDenver has also been hacked, during this ongoing cyber attack. CBS acknowledged the whole phenomena and later a CBS spokeswoman confirmed that the accounts had been compromised. "PLEASE NOTE: Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve." - said the CBS spokesman. Another message from CBS said, "A message that was posted earlier to this account was not written or sent by @60Minutes or its staff."

Here is the list of those fake tweets came from the hijacked accounts of CBS:- 
From @60Minutes account we got the following message -
  • "The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
  • "The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
  • "Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
  • "Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast" 

Other messages claimed: "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here via @SyrianCyberArmy" and suggested the action was in response to the suspension of the @Official_SEA account. Tweets sent out on the @48Hours account reportedly included: "General Dempsey calls for #Obama's arrest under new anti-terror laws #48hours" As soon as the issue get spotted, CBS regain those hijacked accounts and immediately deleted those rouge messages. Later the two accounts @60Minutes and @48Hours has been suspended. 
While talking about twitter hacking, widely known as #twithackery; we would like to remind you the following names, WWE champion John Cena, Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post; these are the famous names who have fallen victim to twithackery before CBS. 



-Source (BBC & Reuters)





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British pop Star Rita Ora's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/03/2012 03:40:00 pm

British pop Star Rita Ora's Twitter Account Hacked

Yet again another celebrity have fallen victim of twitter hacking. After Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor, American pop singer Kesha; now it was time for British pop star Rita Ora. The hacker have broken into the pop star's account and posted a fake tweet saying "I wanna be with Harry Styles". 
Rita Ora has immediatley apologized to fans after a prankster hacked her Twitter account and posted that she has a crush on One Direction singer Harry Styles. The 21-year-old pop singer got to know about the news Saturday when she discovered a tweet on her page. She quickly deleted the message and told her 1.1 million followers she had contacted bosses at the social networking site about temporarily closing her account while resolving the problem. She writes, "My Twitter has been hacked! Trying to get it frozen for a bit!! Sorry guys!!"
Similar things happened earlier when NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 






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Twitter Account of Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/04/2011 05:54:00 pm


Police in Thailand are searching for an anonymous hacker after the Twitter account of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra apparently was hacked.
The account @PouYingluck was compromised early on Sunday morning and eight false tweets were posted criticising Yingluck's leadership of the country.
Once the incident was realised Twitter temporarily suspended the account, which has close to 400,000 followers. As of the time of writing the account remains unavailable.

The hacker's final tweet was:-
"If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country?"

Yingluck said that the hack was a violation of people's personal rights. She added that she would be taking a break from Twitter for an undetermined period.
According to Anudith Nakornthap, the Thai minister for information, communication and technology, Yingluck's Twitter account was compromised after the hacker first gained access to her email, changing her Twitter password with the password reset feature.
This suggests that she was not using the same password for both services, a common reason for Twitter hijackings, but it suggests that the password she used for her email account was not secure enough.
The Thai police are following several clues that might result in an arrest.

-News Source (NS & THE INQUIRER)


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WWE Champion & Actor John Cena's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/26/2012 01:35:00 am

WWE Champion & Actor John Cena's Twitter Account Hacked

Now a days hacking of celebrities, singer, Media, high profile personalities' twitter has became a very natural phenomena. Here again another twitter hacking, also known as #twithackery occurs. This time the victim is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion and renowned actor John Cena. This week more than 2.8 million fans of American professional wrestler John Cena was shocked after seeing irrelevant tweets coming from John Cena's official twitter account. Immediately after it get noticed, the twitter page was restored and those false tweets was deleted. Later a tweet came from John Cena's official twitter page while saying "Sorry guys, guess some attachments got sent out thru my account. Im been a victim of #twithackery" 

Similar things happened earlier when British pop Star Rita Ora, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha, NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. 




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Teyana Taylor Twitter Account Hacked & Nude Photo Leaked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/18/2012 12:16:00 am

Teyana Taylor Twitter Account Hacked & Nude Photo Leaked 
Yet again another celebrity became the victim of twitter account hacking. This time "Christmas in Harlem" singer Teyana Taylor became the target of the hacker. Not only her twitter account get hacked but also the hacker leaked few personal photo of this star among those there are few topless pictures all those hacked photos are posted on her Yfrog a/c. Though it is not yet confirmed that those photos really belongs to Taylor or not because leaked photos do not showing the face of the victim. What ever you can still see the picture. Earlier  NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt Huffington Post Twitter Account became the victim of such twitter hacking. In 2011 another celebrity named Scarlett Johansson became the victim of such nude photo leaks. In her case her mobile phone get hacked which leaks few controversial photos of the star.





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Huffington Post Official Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 1/17/2012 12:57:00 am


Yet another high profile and verified twitter account get compromised. This time the victim is famous news portal Huffington Post. The hacker twitted "cloverfdch is a Fucking god! Hacked :)" & "New York Postrules!!!"  from the Huffington Post official twitter account.
Huffington Post representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment this morning but were apparently aware of the intrusion; the posts in question were quickly deleted from the site's Twitter page, although they still appear on subscribers' third-party Twitter clients.
Later Huffington Post  tweeted "Sorry about that, Twitterverse! We know we've been hacked and are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible,"
If you dig the decent past then you will find that hijacking twitter accounts has became a common phenomena. Earlier NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt twitter account became victim.


-Source (CNet)



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Twitter Account of NBC News Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 9/10/2011 11:24:00 am



Hackers compromised the NBC News Twitter account today and sent several fake tweets from the account about an attack on Ground Zero reminiscent of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
"Breaking News! Ground Zero has just been attacked. Flight 5736 has crashed into the site, suspected hijacking. More as the story develops," was the first tweet this afternoon. It was followed by two others, including one that started "This is not a joke."
The fourth tweet said "NBCNEWS hacked by The Script Kiddies."


An e-mailed NBC News statement said: "The NBC News twitter account was hacked late this afternoon and as a result, false reports of a plane attack on ground zero were sent to @NBCNews followers. We are working with Twitter to correct the situation and sincerely apologize for the scare that could have been caused by such a reckless and irresponsible act."
NBC News also used the Twitter account of its chief digital officer, Vivian Schiller, to alert followers to the problem. "Ignore tweets from @nbcnews till further notice. We've been hacked. Do not retweet," her account tweeted shortly early on. A search for the NBC News Twitter profile shortly thereafter displayed the message "This user does not exist."
It's unclear who the Script Kiddies are. The profile for the Script Kiddies--a term used to describe novice hackers--also appeared to have been removed from Twitter.

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American Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/02/2012 03:29:00 am

American Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan's Twitter Account Hacked

Now a days hacking of celebrities, singer, Media, high profile personalities' twitter has became a natural phenomena. Here again another twitter hacking, also known as #twithackery occurs. After John Cena, Justin Bieber, Teyana Taylor,American pop singer Kesha; now it was time for popular  American actress, fashion designer, model and recording artist Lindsay Morgan Lohan. A fake tweet was posted to the 26-year-old star's feed on the social-media site, leaving all of Lohan's 4.5 million followers a bit confused. According to sources Lindsay Lohan’s Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday with the tweet, 
“How does Hitler tie his shoes?” including a link to the answer on @oatmeal's blog. 
As soon as this tweet was spotted on the wild, immediate step has been taken from the side of Lindsay Lohan, and as expected that fake tweet has been deleted. So far the actress hasn’t expressed much concern for this slight security breach. 


But after regaining access on the twitter page Lindsay Lohan confirmed that her page indeed hacked while tweeting "my twitter was hacked, please ignore the last tweet."  as shown on the above picture. While talking  Lindsay Lohan twitter hacking, we also want to include the name of those celebrities  who have fallen victim to these nonstop #twithackery : NBC News, Fox News Politics, USAToday, Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account, Anders Breivik’s twitter, Mahesh Bhatt, Huffington Post & many more. 











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Anonymous Strikes Uribe & Defense Ministry (Official Facebook & Twitter Compromised)

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 7/21/2011 02:23:00 pm

 
The hacker group "Anonymous" on Wednesday took control of the Facebook page of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the Twitter account of ex-President Alvaro Uribe, and caused a shut-down the website for Colombia's Ministry of Defense. The hackers' offensive took place around 2PM on Colombia's Independence Day.
On Santos' Facebook page, Anonymous posted a link to a YouTube video proclaiming that Colombia was celebrating a "false independence." The video listed what the authors thought was wrong with Colombia. At 5PM, Santos' account was still under control of the hackers, who announced that "surprises" would continue until 6PM. Santos tweeted that he regretted "the interference on the Facebook account on my name and the messages that have been published from there."
Uribe's Twitter account was similarly hacked and featured a link to the same video as well as a new background featuring the Anonymous logo. Uribe tweeted that "my account has been penetrated by terrorists."

The former president's choice of words led to hundreds of Twitter comments under #uribepenetradoremarking on how Anonymous "had penetrated his flower."
The messages posted by Anonymous on the former president's Twitter page were removed within hours while Uribe called Twitter for help, but the politician failed to replace the background which kept showing the hacker collective's logo. Anonymous also appears to have hacked or attacked the Ministry of Defense website. An image of the website with an Anonymous logo has been posted on their twitter account and the website of the ministry was down in the afternoon.

Earlier in the day, the presidential website was also down, although Anonymous did not claim an attack on that website.
The hacker collective had announced an "independence offensive" on Tuesday, the day before Colombia celebrated its 201st birthday.
Earlier this year, Anonymous hacked the Colombian Senate's website.

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Mahesh Bhatt's Twitter Account Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/30/2011 05:08:00 pm


Famous Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt's twitter account get compromised. On the 29th of November an abusive comment was tweeted from Bhatt's account. Celebrities like Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leone and KRK has been abused with slang on that particular tweet. 
"@ghantaasingh @kamaalrkhan @SunnyLeone @iPoonampandey #AapChutiyeHain,"

Later Bhatt tweeted that  "Someone has hacked my account and used it to abuse Kamal Khan and few others. This is dangerous."

A flabbergasted Kamaal Khan couldn't believe his eyes as he read the message addressed to him from none other than Mahesh Bhatt.  On reading the abusive message, Kamaal immediately wrote back to Mahesh Bhatt asking, "bhai jaan I shall appreciate if you can clarify whether you are calling me chutiye?" 
Later Poonam Pandey, who was abused on that tweet said that 

"i Guess this Words cant be of @MaheshNBhatt as he is a gem of person and a gentleman! #HACKED," reacted Poonam Pandey on her twitter page. 
Poonam Pandey's hunch was true as Mahesh Bhatt posted after a few hours, "Someone has hacked my account and used it to abuse Kamal Khan and few others. This is dangerous."
Now a days hacking into celebrities twitter account became a common phenomena. Earlier lots of high profile twitter a/c get compromised among them Fox News, NBC News, USA Today, Sky News and many more. Earlier in this year the mail a/c of Bollywood actor and director Arbazz Khan was also hacked and now Mahesh Bhatt also became the victim. It seems that Bollywood celebrities are on the hot-list of cyber criminals. 




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22 Years Old Student (Aekawit Thongdeeworakul) Arrested in Thai PM Twitter Account Hacking Case

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 10/07/2011 06:01:00 pm


Police in Thailand have arrested a university student who is said to have admitted hacking into the Prime Minister's Twitter account and posting messages accusing her of incompetence.
22-year-old Aekawit Thongdeeworakul, a fourth year architecture student at Chulalongkorn University, could face up to two years in prison if found guilty of illegally accessing computer systems without authorisation. Thailand's Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, had her Twitter account hacked last weekend - and her followers saw a stream of messages criticising her leadership.
The hacker's final tweet read:-
"If she can't even protect her own Twitter account, how can she protect the country?"

In bizarre scenes, Thongdeeworakul appeared before reporters at a hastily convened news conference in Bangkok, alongside ICT Minister Anudith Nakornthap.
The minister told members of the press that the alleged hacker believed his actions were innocent "as he didn't realise it would be a big deal." According to the ICT minister, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had her Gmail account hacked on September 30th by unknown people, and her password was disseminated across the computer underground.
 

-News Source (NS)


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Kian Egan: Twitter Account Hacked – Not Leaving Westlife

Posted by VOICE OF GREYHAT On 4/24/2011 08:44:00 am

Kian Egan: Twitter Account Hacked – Not Leaving Westlife
Twitter has quickly become one of the largest of the social networks that there are in the world and with that being the case it’s always susceptible wrong doing much the same as other social networks such as Facebook. You only have to look at whenCharlie Sheen joined Twitter; he received 800,000 followers at an amazing rate.
Some of the accounts that we have seen compromised in recent times include Ashton Kutcher and also Lil Wayne who was forced to delete his account following hacking. Today we wanted to tell you about a new victim, his name is Kian Egan. His Twitter account has been hacked and he has told fans that he isn’t leaving Westlife.
Westlife is one of the most successful bands that I have seen; they were put together by Louis Walsh who continues to manage them. Kian Egan’s account was hacked and his 70,000 followers were informed that he was leaving the band. His tweet reads “Got a very sad announcement everyone, I am leaving Westlife to concentrate on managing Wonderland. I haven’t taken this decision lightly… The boys are going to continue as a Three Piece… I am leaving.”
Because the tweet came from his Twitter page which as independent.ie say but othermembers tried to calm things down by revealing that Kian wasn’t leaving and that his profile had indeed been hacked.

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Agents deny Smith Twitter hijack

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 5/05/2011 10:55:00 am


Alan Smith's agents have been forced to clarify that a Twitter account purporting to belong to the Newcastle United midfielder is in fact fake.
The account in question, @AlanSmithy17, describes itself as "the official Alan Smith Twitter account" and on Wednesday afternoon tweets claiming to be from the striker's ex-fiancee, who had apparently hacked into the site, promised to reveal the truth about his move from Leeds to Manchester United in 2004 and whether he could return to Elland Road.
As well as publishing what was claimed to be a text from Smith, the 'ex-fiancee' also relayed alleged voicemail messages from the player as the account quickly gathered followers.
However, the agency that represents Smith soon clarified that the footballer had no affiliation with the account in question.
A tweet from @SportFirst read: "@alansmithy17 is not and has never been the Twitter account of footballer Alan Smith pls RT everyone".

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Twitter Hacked, More Than 250,000 User Data Compromised

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 2/03/2013 01:55:00 am

Twitter Hacked, More Than 250,000 User Data Compromised

The social networking giant and the world famous micro blogging site Twitter again fallen victim of cyber attack. Last year we have seen that the tight security system if twitter have been compromised many times. Yet again in this year the San Francisco based social media giant who have more than 500 million registered users failed to protect them selves from hackers. On last Friday Twitter acknowledged that it had become the latest victim in a number of cyber-attacks against media companies, saying hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. The micro blogging giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected. According to reports usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted passwords for 250,000 users might have been accessed in what it described as a “sophisticated attack” 

"This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” said Bob Lord, Twitter’s director of information security. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organisations have also been recently similarly attacked” Bob added. 

Jim Prosser, a Twitter spokesman, would not say how hackers infiltrated Twitter’s systems, but Twitter’s blog post said hackers had broken in through a well-publicized vulnerability in Oracle’s Java software. Last month, after a security researcher exposed a serious vulnerability in the software, though Oracle patched the security hole, but Homeland Security said the fix was not sufficient. The DHS issued a rare alert that warned users to disable Java on their computers. Prosser said Twitter was working with government and federal law enforcement to track down the source of the attacks. For now, he said the company had reset passwords for, and notified, every compromised user. The company encouraged users to practice good password hygiene, which typically means coming up with different passwords for different sites, and using long passwords that cannot be found in the dictionary.
Twitter said it “hashed” passwords — which involves mashing up users’ passwords with a mathematical algorithm — and “salted” those, meaning it appended random digits to the end of each hashed password to make it more difficult, but not impossible, for hackers to crack. Once cracked, passwords can be valuable on auction-like black market sites where a single password can fetch $20.

While talking about Twitter and cyber issues, I would like to remind you that in last year twitter faced several cyber attacks where more than 55,000 twitter account details was leaked, after this issue in the middle of last year the social networking giant faced massive denial of service which interrupted its services. Later a huge number of Twitter users across the globe received  emails warning that their account have been compromised and their passwords had been reset, and it was another security breach which affected twitter. Such big organization are not at all careless about security, so as twitter and it has been proved when they hired renowned white hat hacker Charlie Miller to boost up their security, but after this current massacre, it seems that twitter need to think more and emphasize a lot to make sure that their system is good enough to prevent cyber attacks. For all the hot cyber updates and reviews stay tuned with VOGH.


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Security Breach: Twitter Unintentionally Resets More Passwords Than Accounts Hacked

Posted by Avik Sarkar On 11/10/2012 12:57:00 am

Security Breach: Twitter Unintentionally Resets More Passwords Than Accounts Hacked

Yet again the famous micro blogging site Twitter faced security challenge. Tuesday a huge number of Twitter users across the globe received  emails warning that their account may have been compromised and their passwords had been reset as a precautionary measure to prevent unauthorized access. In the e-mail, the microblogging company noted: "Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a Web site or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account."

It remains unclear how many have been affected by the password reset e-mail or what's caused the mass e-mailing of its users. A post by TweetSmarter on Wednesday noted that in some cases when "large numbers of Twitter accounts have been hijacked," the company sends out these e-mails en masse, even sending messages to accounts that may not have been affected by any hack or hijack to err on the side of caution. The emails are apparently legitimate, though they were sent to more than victims of compromised accounts. The mass email coincided with incidents involving several high-profile accounts, including at least one account belonging to the BBC. Other media organisations, such as the TechCrunch blog, reported being warned. 
"We’re committed to keeping Twitter a safe and open community," reads a notice the company issued earlier Thursday. "As part of that commitment, in instances when we believe an account may have been compromised, we reset the password and send an email letting the account owner know this has happened along with information about creating a new password. This is a routine part of our processes to protect our users. "In this case, we unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those that we believed to have been compromised. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused."
Twitter officials have not disclosed how many uncompromised accounts had passwords reset, nor any more on the attack that led to those actions. The social media site currently has 140 million active users. Some victims reported having select tweets deleted, while others started sending out spam.

-Source (CNET)



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