Comments on: Obama Twitter Acount Hacked? Or Given Away? http://www.longtailtreasure.com/obama-twitter-acount-hacked-or-given-away/ Learn Affiliate Marketing | Free Affiliate Marketing Course Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Todd Alan http://www.longtailtreasure.com/obama-twitter-acount-hacked-or-given-away/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Todd Alan Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:56:15 +0000 http://www.longtailtreasure.com/?p=200#comment-884 Hi Michelle, You make a very good point and it seems I may have jumped the gun a little ;) I see on the twitter blog they're also claiming there were two separate problems, one a phishing problem and one a hacking problem. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/monday-morning-madness.html Having worked in IT for may years I've come to realize that a large majority of security issues usually revolve around people problems as opposed to technology being hacked in the real sense of the word hack. In your case it could very well have been a third party tools like you mentioned or, given twitter was reporting hacking issues as well as phishing issues, it could have been your account was hacked right at twitter. I certainly feel your iphone pain though! cheers, todd Hi Michelle,

You make a very good point and it seems I may have jumped the gun a little ;)

I see on the twitter blog they’re also claiming there were two separate problems, one a phishing problem and one a hacking problem. http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/monday-morning-madness.html

Having worked in IT for may years I’ve come to realize that a large majority of security issues usually revolve around people problems as opposed to technology being hacked in the real sense of the word hack.

In your case it could very well have been a third party tools like you mentioned or, given twitter was reporting hacking issues as well as phishing issues, it could have been your account was hacked right at twitter.

I certainly feel your iphone pain though!

cheers,
todd

]]> By: Michelle http://www.longtailtreasure.com/obama-twitter-acount-hacked-or-given-away/comment-page-1/#comment-880 Michelle Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:12:53 +0000 http://www.longtailtreasure.com/?p=200#comment-880 At first I agreed with you until it happened to me. I don't follow many people on my cookscrafts twitter page. All I use it for is to post things happening in my shop. So I've never clicked on a link there and gave out my info. My account was "hacked" today not once but twice. Both times I was able to say "forgot password" and reset it, once to a 10 character password and then to a 26 character password. Now I'm not saying its Twitter either. Most of us on twitter use 3rd party programs like twitteriffic or twirl to access twitter. The problem may be that one of those servers has been compromised. In any event I hope its fixed soon, because it was a giant pain in the arse to type the 26 character password into my iphone's twitter program. :( At first I agreed with you until it happened to me. I don’t follow many people on my cookscrafts twitter page. All I use it for is to post things happening in my shop. So I’ve never clicked on a link there and gave out my info. My account was “hacked” today not once but twice. Both times I was able to say “forgot password” and reset it, once to a 10 character password and then to a 26 character password.

Now I’m not saying its Twitter either. Most of us on twitter use 3rd party programs like twitteriffic or twirl to access twitter. The problem may be that one of those servers has been compromised.

In any event I hope its fixed soon, because it was a giant pain in the arse to type the 26 character password into my iphone’s twitter program. :(

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