Twitter made an announcement on the 1st of Feb that hackers have been going around hacking a lot of twitter accounts. According to the twitter report about 250,000 accounts have been hacked including emails, usernames and passwords also the report stated that there have been some unauthorized attempts on some account. a lot of accounts are being viewed from a different locations at a particular time.

An attack on one account was discovered but before the site could close down the account, the hacker had already gained access to several other accounts.

The Director of twitter Bob Lord said the attack wasn’t done by amateurs but by professionals. This attack is the highest security breach the US Technology has ever had.

People with twitter accounts that has been hacked have to reset their password inorder for them to gain access into their profile.

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