Twitter’s own systems were compromised by hackers. The accounts of Britney Spears, Barack Obama, Fox News, CNNs Rick Sanchez and others were compromised on their website today. Twitter claims that these accounts were not broken into as a result of the widespread phishing attack that has taken place on Twitter over the last couple of days. Hackers accessed tools that normally only Twitter’s technical support team can use to help locked-out members reset their email address were accessed by hackers, enabling them to steal.”]
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