A large-scale cyber attack on Twitter has compromised the accounts of more than a quarter of million users of the micro-blogging site.
Twitter said one attack was shut down moments after it was detected, adding that the passwords of users who may have been affected had been reset.
Among the information compromised was:
- usernames
- email addresses and
- encrypted passwords.
Twitter’s director of information security, Bob Lord, said in a blog post: “As a precautionary security measure, we have reset passwords and revoked session tokens for these accounts.
“This attack was not the work of amateurs and we do not believe it was an isolated incident.
“The attackers were extremely sophisticated and we believe other companies and organisations have also been recently similarly attacked.”
Mr Lord said that although “only a very small percentage” of users were potentially affected, everyone who uses the site should ensure their password is secure.
He said passwords should be at least 10 characters long, contain upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols, and be different to passwords used for other online accounts.
Via: Sky News