In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents

Re:In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents by ntoshev on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @03:33AM (#705332)

Arrington says the vulnerability was in Google Apps for Your Domain, although the original article about the hack says otherwise:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164182/hacker_...

  Hacker Croll claimed to have accessed Goldman's Twitter
  password by first gaining access to his Yahoo account. 
  "One of the admins has a yahoo account, i've reset the
  password by answering to the secret question. Then, in
  the mailbox, i have found her [sic] twitter password," 
  Hacker Croll said Wednesday in a posting to an online
  discussion forum. "I've used social engineering only, 
  no exploit, no xss vulnerability, no backdoor, no sql
  injection."

I wonder why the hacker would send the documents to Techchrunch. He could have uploaded them somewhere and then submitted the link to Reddit.

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Re:In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents by ErrantX on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @04:45AM (#705388)

> wonder why the hacker would send the documents to Techchrunch

The inference I got was they paid for them. BUT I stress that is only what I picked up - not seen anything concrete. Could explain it though.

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Re:In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents by trickjarrett on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @08:59AM (#705588)

I wondered the same thing. It's not like TC is going to publicize his hacker handle to get him credit. Seems like a disgruntled employee or user or spammer trying to stir up bad press for them.

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Re:In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents by bigbang on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @05:03AM (#705404)

> although the original article about the hack says otherwise

This article is from May 1. The same hacker has hacked again (unfortunately thru social engineering again)

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