Porn Spammer Hijacks Twitter Accounts
About 750 Twitter accounts were hacked last week and used to send tweet spam.
Today we discovered about 750 Twitter accounts were broken into and had a link to a webcam site posted on the accounts. It appears other sites and services have been affected by a similar attack. We reset the passwords of the compromised accounts and removed the spammy updates. Our safety team is currently investigating the attack.
The hacked accounts had spammy links pointing to a porn webcam site. Apparently Facebook was hit with a similar attack last month that was promoting the same webcam site.
Information Week contributor Thomas Claburn explains that the accounts could have been compromised by a dictionary attack:
A dictionary attack, as its name suggests, involves randomly trying every word in a dictionary file as a possible password. It’s for this reason that users are advised never to use single words in any language as a password.
Lesson: Don’t use single words as your password and change your passwords frequently.
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