Source: Sophos
Complete item: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/24/acai-berry-spammers-hack-twitter-accounts-spread-adverts/
Description:
Hundreds of innocent user's accounts on the Twitter micro-blogging service appear to have been hacked by spammers.
A typical message posted on the compromised accounts will say something similar to the following:
Howdy my friend! I just lost 13 pounds in 12 days. It only costs me $5. Take a look at this: http://[random].cn
If you do click on the link you get taken to a website with a .cn tld (top level domain).
The question is - how have these accounts on Twitter been hacked? At the moment, that's not clear. But what is evident is that users need to take more care with their Twitter passwords.
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