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Twitter “Hack” Linked to Internal Security Breach

There has been a great deal of churn on the Twitter DNS redirect.

From The Register:

However, security experts involved in maintaining the site said Twitter’s own login credentials were used in the attack. Tom Daly, chief technology officer at Dyn told Wired that attackers used a “set of valid Twitter credentials” to change DNS setting and redirect surfers.

The previously unknown group who carried out the attack wrote a message criticising US “interference” in recent Iranian elections, republished by TechCrunch here.

Is it still a hack if they have the passwords? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.

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