250,000 Twitter Passwords Hacked – What Should You Do?

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 5, 2013

Twitter is one of the most widely used social networking services in the world, making it an attractive target for malicious hackers.

Late Friday Twitter revealed that it had stopped a sophisticated attack against its users — but not before approximately 250,000 user accounts were compromised.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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