Twitter resets accounts of scam targets
Posted by admin | Posted in Internet | Posted on 03-02-2010-05-2008
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – – Twitter on Tuesday blocked the accounts of users who evidently fell prey to a “phishing” scam that stole their log-in information.
The wildly popular microblogging service locked the apparent victims of the con job out of their Twitter accounts and sent them email messages directing them to create new passwords.
“OMG just looked at someone’s Twitter who got hacked (and it) made me have shivers,” a member of the online community wrote in a text message on Tuesday.
Twitter declined to reveal the extent of the problem but said in an email response to press inquiries that it reset a “small number” of accounts that it believes were “compromised off-site.”
Updates posted to some Twitter accounts indicated that user names and passwords had been given to “untrusted third parties,” according to Twitter.
Source: Twitter
