Hacker Croll, the hacker who embarrassed Twitter a year ago by making hundreds of its confidential corporate documents public, received a five-month suspended prison sentence last week. The Frenchman was also responsible for accessing without authorization the Twitter profiles of several celebrities including US Pres... |
28 June 2010
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The hacker credited with pulling off the most damaging hack against Twitter to date, which resulted in the leak of thousands of confidential corporate documents, was arrested by authorities in France. However, the Frenchman was questioned about an earlier attack involving unauthorized access to several high profile T... |
25 March 2010
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It was not any particular vulnerability that a French hacker exploited in order to get his hands on Twitter confidential corporate documents. According to his own account, it was patience and determination combined with the inherent security weaknesses in today's Web 2.0 ecosystem. TechCrunch, one of the first ... |
21 July 2009
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A hacker claims to have compromised the personal email accounts of several Twitter employees including that of Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams. As a result, he also obtained access to one employee's Google Apps account, from where he downloaded confidential company documents that were recently leaked to the med... |
16 July 2009
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This is shaping up to be a very bad year for micro-blogging platform Twitter, as far as its security is concerned. Last week, a hacker obtained access to a Twitter administrative account and subsequently leaked private information from ten profiles, including some belonging to celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Lily... |
4 May 2009
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