Twitter may have been hacked

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rt.com/usa/news/twitter-posted-file-sharing-818/

The passwords for up to 35,000 Twitter accounts were posted on the online file sharing website Pastebin.com. Twitter said it would be trying to figure out how the user names and passwords ended up posted on the portal.
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Should be fun.

My personal account I use very little (I'm basically just squatting on my name) but I'm in charge of my office's official twitter account.
 
Doesn't necessarily mean Twitter was hacked. Existing password databases may have just been crosschecked with Twitter accounts to create this list.
 
Looks like people are trying to get into their email accounts from using their twitter passwords thinking they are the same.
 
Whenever I see tips like "Don't make your password 'password' 'aaaaaaaa' or '1234567890'" I think to myself "No one could possible be that stupid.

I was wrong again.
 
Sean said:
http://pastebin.com/Kc9ng18h
http://pastebin.com/vCMndK2L
http://pastebin.com/JdQkuYwG
http://pastebin.com/fw43srjY
http://pastebin.com/jv4LBjPX

ctrl-f / cmd-f your email address on those pages to see if you're account is there.
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Nothing I'm searching for isn't showing up so I doubt searching my complete address would show up either (since I did the first part before the @). I think I'm safe. *whew* But I'm still changing my twitter password because fuck them being semi-in-the-open. That's poor security right there.
 
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/the-twitter-attack-that-wasnt/

Hackers claiming to be part of the Anonymous group released what at first glance appeared to be usernames and passwords for 55,000 hacked Twitter accounts on Pastebin on Tuesday. But a closer look revealed that nearly half those accounts were duplicates and that the vast majority belonged to accounts that had been suspended by Twitter in the past.

According to Twitter, it appears that of the accounts that were supposedly hacked and pasted online, more than 20,000 were duplicate usernames. A majority of the accounts that were not duplicates appear to be suspended spam Twitter accounts.
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oh first post got it.
 
I'm not on there, phew! But man am I tempted to check if my friends are.... and i'm not sure where i'd go from there.
 
Don't seem to be on the list (well I hardly use my Twitter account), but I changed my password to another string of random letters and numbers.
 
BloombergBusinessweek_TwitterCover12.jpg
 
I have a hard time believing that those passwords are legit. They seem far too secure for the average internet user.
 
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