The ‘Twitter Hack’ is all over the blogosphere, although it isn’t really a hack on Twitter as such. An individual (or team) going by the name “Hacker Croll” gained access to the personal accounts of Twitter employees and associates, according to an email from Evan Williams (@EV – Twitter founder).
Based on the screen shots circulating the web, it would appear that admin staff at Twitter were using gmail for sensitive activities such as domain name administration – this meant that the hacker could potentially have used their access to redirect Twitter.com to a malicious site. Of course this is all great blogging fodder for the likes of TechCrunch, which is clearly enjoying baiting its readers. I don’t see that publishing Twitter’s company confidential information on a blog helps anyone, other than gaining traffic for the blog that posts it. [more...]





