Hacker Attacks Twitter
July 16, 2009 – 3:28 pmA hacker has broken into an email box of a Twitter employee and has made off with valuable confidential documents.
The incident happened about two days ago and could be a sign of things to come for the micro-blogging leader.
The breach occurred about a month ago, said Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, when a hacker calling himself Hacker Croll broke into an administrative assistant’s e-mail account, then used that to collect information that let him access the employee’s Google Apps account. Twitter workers use the corporate version of Google Apps to share documents and other information within the company.
The hacker sent the confidential documents to many websites, who then reported on their contents. One of the details offered in an internal Twitter document says the company projects net earnings of $1.1 billion by 2013.
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