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January 22, 2009
Obama Gets Hacked
By Eden Litt
When creating a password, you may find it rather annoying when you need to have a certain number of characters that include both letters and numbers, and sometimes even symbols. But, you should probably take that time to choose your passwords wisely, or you may become a victim of password theft.
Wired’s Threat Level recently interviewed an 18-year-old who launched a dictionary attack to hack into the account of a Twitter staffer whose password was “Happiness”. Gaining access to this administrative account allowed him to reset the password of ANY Twitter account. He then buoyantly hijacked the official accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, CBS News, Fox News—just to name a few.
It’s a hard lesson to learn, but easy to prevent. When in the blogosphere (or any sphere for that matter), take the time to pick your passwords wisely.
Posted by staff at January 22, 2009 01:30 PM
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