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Hackers Hijack Obama's, Britney's Twitter Accounts

Send spurious tweets after gaining control through Twitter's support tools

By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Twitter, however, said that the hacks of prominent users were unconnected to the first phishing campaign or the follow-up spam.

"This is actually much more serious than these people and organizations falling for a simple phishing attack," said Cluley, who earlier Monday had said there might be a link between the two. "It appears that Twitter's systems were potentially exposing everybody's account to the danger of being taken over by hackers."

Nonetheless, both Cluley and Marian Merritt, an Internet safety advocate for rival security company Symantec Corp., applauded Twitter's fast response. "Twitter has been very upfront and ahead of the game on this," said Merritt.

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