karl
February 2nd, 2013, 12:53 PM
As many as a quarter of a million Twitter users may have had their personal details stolen by hackers, after the social media giant became the latest victim in a string of high-profile cyber attacks.
Twitter, which has over 200 million active users worldwide, admitted in a blog posting earlier this week it had detected attempts to gain access to its user data.
While the site shut down one attack moments after it was detected, it discovered the 'extremely sophisticated' hackers may have managed to access user names, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272315/Twitter-hackers-Quarter-million-users-personal-data-stolen.html#ixzz2JlWCEvbH
Twitter, which has over 200 million active users worldwide, admitted in a blog posting earlier this week it had detected attempts to gain access to its user data.
While the site shut down one attack moments after it was detected, it discovered the 'extremely sophisticated' hackers may have managed to access user names, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272315/Twitter-hackers-Quarter-million-users-personal-data-stolen.html#ixzz2JlWCEvbH