250,000 passwords stolen in Twitter hack

[Simon]

Twitter has become the latest victim in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks against media companies, saying hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users.

The social media giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/twitter-passwords-hacked-on-250000-accounts-8478140.html

[Clive]

I don't do Twitter or Facebook.  Does that make me a bad person?    

[Simon]

No, a sensible one. 

[pctech]

That's one of the things that worries me about all this cloud business, the more stuff people put online the greater the temptation there is for those with an intention to exploit that data for financial gain to have a crack at defeating whatever security measures are put in place.

While in the UK organisations handling personal information or documents are subject to very strict laws and have to put a lot of  measures in place to both electronically and physically protect the servers and storage devices handling and processing that information it isn't the same the world over and these companies can end up storing your data anywhere.

[Technical Ben]

Or only one account was hacked... the twitter blog account.  

[Clive]

No, a sensible one. 

Oi!  I resent that!   

[Simon]

It was a moment of madness - sorry for any offence.   

[Clive]