Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised

Re:Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compro... by taligent on Friday February 01, 2013 @08:26PM (#5154684)

Or more likely the database is sharded and they just compromised those physical machines.

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Re:Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compro... by 0x0 on Friday February 01, 2013 @08:55PM (#5154775)

That sounds odd, 250k out of 500m sounds like way too little data for even a single shard, no? And why would only a single shard be vulnerable?

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