Twitter hacked Accounts Were Compromised

Twitter hacked Accounts Were Compromised - Twitter, the massive micro-blogging social network, is reported to be hacked early today. Apparently a lot of accounts have been compromised and if you received an email to change your Twitter password, don’t ignore it as it is not a phishing attempt. Many Twitter users are reporting that upon log-in, they are asked to reset their passwords because their accounts may have been compromised.

Twitter hacked Accounts Were Compromised

Twitter has just released its statement admitting the fact that many user accounts on Twitter had been breached. But during this madness, Twitter messed up, ending up resetting passwords of accounts not affected by the hack.
Here is their official statement,

“We’re committed to keeping Twitter a safe and open community. As part of that commitment, in instances when we believe an account may have been compromised, we reset the password and send an email letting the account owner know this has happened along with information about creating a new password. This is a routine part of our processes to protect our users.
In this case, we unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those that we believed to have been compromised. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.”

The hack was pretty widespread as a large number of Twitter users were affected by this breach including the popular tech-blog TechCrunch, which started sending out spam tweets (though now they’ve regained control of it).