Hackers breached the accounts of Britney Spears, Barack Obama and Rick Sanchez

And it is not the limit. Phishing scammers and cyber criminals attempted star’s accounts. So Britney Spears, Barack Obama and CNN’s Rick Sanchez suffered from hackers. And for that purpose tools normally accessible only to Twitter’s technical support team were used. In the result the support tools have been taken off line. Moreover, Twitter locked down the breached accounts and initiated an investigation, and the legitimate owners are now back in charge. Mentioned 33 breaches were separate from the weekend phishing scam mostly because of the power of the attack. It was noted that there was a coordinated attack in which users received e-mail directing them to phony Twitter homepage, where scammers could steal their user names and passwords. The breached accounts let hackers accessed. And they did it with tolls that were designed for use by Twitter support staff.

According to Richard Wang, U. S. SophosLabs manager at Sophos, in order to make the attack more subtle and serious hackers targeted high-profile individuals. However, there was some useful thing in this situation. For example, the attack highlighted a possible weakness in their security tools. And it showed one more time that users need to be aware of cybercrime , especially during this economic slowdown when its rise is mostly observed. And the important issue for all corporate users is allowing access or not to personal e-mails and social networking sites. Wang also explained that a hacker who is able to Tweet using someone’s identity gains the credibility of that individual and benefits of any relationship that individual have with the reader. Today’s society and economic downturn make hackers do what they can do try and gain financial information.