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Nobody hacks Twitter just to get valid emails or impersonate someone. That's ridiculous. Pretty clearly this was the work of governments e.g. China, Iran who a
by taligent 14y ago
Nobody hacks Twitter just to get valid emails or impersonate someone. That's ridiculous.
Pretty clearly this was the work of governments e.g. China, Iran who are trying to find out more about political dissidents or the sources of leaks. They are the only ones who would use lucrative exploits against Twitter, NYT, WSJ etc.
- nemothekid 14y agoSo to make this clear, the best guess is these attacks are being done by governments in an effort to find out who is leaking data to Twitter, NYT, etc? Pretty interesting if you ask me, is it likely the use would sick the best hackers at the NSA if top secret information was being leaked on the bizzaro world's Chinese Twitter? It almost sounds like the prologue to the worlds first CyberWar.
- 0x0 14y agoTo reiterate what I've been posting elsewhere, I'm sure there is a lot of compromising material in the Direct Messages of certain well-picked accounts, for a wide range of motives.
- bitcartel 14y agoThere is nothing clear about this attack at all, thus it's grossly unfair to cast aspersions on any country or select group of individuals unless there is hard evidence.
- chris_mahan 14y agoOr perhaps US government...
- rasengan0 14y agoAt first i thought the email was phishing but sure enough my acct was reset even with 17 chars. i wonder if Twitter can cull any correlations from this compromised pool, epidemiological-like