twitter hack | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 09 May 2012 07:18:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png twitter hack | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Twitter deny Anonymous hacked 55,000 accounts https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/twitter-deny-anonymous-hacked-55000-accounts/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/twitter-deny-anonymous-hacked-55000-accounts/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 07:18:33 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=90425 Well known hacking group Anonymous claimed to have accessed and published the details of around 55,000 Twitter accounts. The company are denying their claims saying that Anonymous posted ‘duplicate' information and password information for suspended spam based accounts. Anonymous posted a file on Pastebin which listed Twitter usernames and passwords. Airdemon.net, the hacking news aggregator …

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Well known hacking group Anonymous claimed to have accessed and published the details of around 55,000 Twitter accounts. The company are denying their claims saying that Anonymous posted ‘duplicate' information and password information for suspended spam based accounts.

Anonymous posted a file on Pastebin which listed Twitter usernames and passwords. Airdemon.net, the hacking news aggregator reported the claims yesterday which raised concerns that Anonymous had successfully targeted the Twitter servers and breached thousands of accounts. Airdemon said that even some celebrity accounts were compromised and said they had first hand information from a Twitter insider regarding the supposed attack.

A Twitter representative spoke to Mashable saying that the claims were not accurate, however they are still investigating the claims.

Twitter said that many of the usernames and passwords are not linked to each other, and are therefore useless in the wrong hands.

Twitter are playing it safe and have sent out password reset information to accounts they feel may be affected and have encouraged other users to change their passwords and review security settings. There is more information on this page.

Kitguru says: Are Anonymous accurate in their claims?

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Twitter set to break 200 million users by end of year https://www.kitguru.net/channel/carl/twitter-set-to-break-200-million-users-by-end-of-year/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/carl/twitter-set-to-break-200-million-users-by-end-of-year/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:44:17 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=21424 Love them or loate them, it is hard to escape social networking in the news today. Latest information reaching KitGuru details that Twitter now have over 175 million users, a growth of 30 million people since August, or 15 million users a month. Not many networks could claim a growth of half a million users …

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Love them or loate them, it is hard to escape social networking in the news today. Latest information reaching KitGuru details that Twitter now have over 175 million users, a growth of 30 million people since August, or 15 million users a month.

Not many networks could claim a growth of half a million users every day and when we look back at recent reports earlier this year, we can see that Twitter growth was only 300,000 people a day (I say only!).

These growth rates are incredible and after making a few calculations it seems possible that Twitter could breach the 300 million user mark by the end of the year.

Twitter co founder Biz Stone said that 75 percent of all Twitters traffic comes from outside the site, third party applications that tap into Twitter's service in various ways, such as applications on the iPhone and other devices.

KitGuru says: How many users by the end of 2011 however? submit your guesses!

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