Twitter: A Security Breach
October 21, 2016
Several years ago, the Beyond Search Twitter account was compromised. I received emails about tweets relating to a pop singer named Miley Cyrus. We knew the Twitter CTO at the time and it took about 10 days to fix the issue. At that time, I knew that Twitter had an issue.
I read “Passwords for 32 Million Twitter Accounts May Have Been Hacked and Leaked.” I learned:
the data comes from a Twitter hack in which 32 million Twitter accounts may have been compromised. The incident and the news comes from a rather unusual source that lets you download such data and even lets you remove yourself from the listing for free.
No word about how many days will be consumed addressing affected accounts.
Stephen E Arnold, October 21, 2016
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