by Nik
20. December 2009 21:25
On December 17th Twitter was hijacked by "Iranian Cyber Army" who managed to compromise DNS server records which in layman's term means that they were able to redirect requests to twitter.com to their own servers. Users who tried to login during that time saw the screenshot which is presented in this post above.
While this does not necessarily mean that any passwords were compromised, it would have been very easy for the attackers to set up a fake login page and harvest user passwords as the unsuspecting users tried to log in. We would however suggest that if you haven't already done so yet, please change your twitter.com password to be on the safer side.
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