Attack on Twitter -More details revealed

Twitter.com which is one of the most famous social messaging utility has been hacked. First reports of the attack actually came out in May but more and more details about the attack are coming out everyday. Recently, more evidence of the attack was published on a French website. The screen shots of the accounts and some other confidential data are published there.

The hacker, who introduced himself as 'Hacker Croll' reportedly accessed the accounts of the Twitter employees and some celebrity members like Britney Spears.

He claims to have found out the following:

• The complete list of employees
• Their food preferences
• Their credit card numbers
• Some confidential contracts with Nokia, Samsung, Dell, AOL, Microsoft and others
• Direct emails with web and showbizz personalities
• Phone numbers
• Meeting reports
  
• Internal document templates
• Time sheet
• Applicant resumes
• Salary grid

But there is no evidence for this.

The hacker got into the Gmail account of @Ev first and then got into the other accounts from there.

He claims to have gained access to some secret documents, including projections for reaching 25 million users in 2009, 100 million in 2010, 350 million in 2010, and an outlandish goal to eventually become the first Internet service to reach one billion users.

The hacker in his letter to the site member explains that he hacked to teach the experts the lesson that nobody is safe on the net. He also points out the lack of effectiveness of the secret questions.

This attack on Twitter tells us how easy it is to get into a website just by hacking a Gmail account.

So guys, be careful!!! Don't set security questions that can be answered easily and don't use the answer of the security question as a password. Use unique passwords for all your accounts.