Twitter’s Biz Stone reports that 33 Twitter accounts, including Rick Sanchez’s and Obama Barack’s, had been hacked into by someone who had gained access to support tools used by Twitter employees.
This incident and last weekend’s phishing problems are not the best way to bring in the New Year. If I were one of Twitter’s investors, it might be time for a management meeting to figure out what’s happening.
For a service on the cusp of hitting the mainstream and, as important, attracting a lucrative take-over candidate, these kind of incidents are not the kind of thing that can be tolerated.
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I have to imagine management is meeting right now and conducting a complete audit of the system. Though this is a major screw up, I feel for them because we all know how sites become hack targets once they achieve success.
The targeting is only exacerbated when a site achieves success AND a high profile.
They have their Mulligan, now they need to get to work fast.