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Twitter services (a kind of virtual social networking) Barack Obama owned it Britney Spears, and a number of other famous figures hacker attack, on Monday (5 / 1) local time.Messages in the name of a false and they spread through the internet service is mikroblog.
The Twitter, Biz Stone, in a statement through the official company blog states, 33 have been attacked Twitter, including Obama and property boss CNN, Rick Sanchez.
"We lock it and immediately investigate this case," Stone said while adding, Obama Twitter property have not updated (update) since he won the U.S. Ppresiden Elections, November.
"Twitter is used by someone in order to hack into a number of tools that we use the team to help people do things, such as editing an e-mail address associated with their Twitter," said Stone again.
According to the technology blogs, a number of Twitterers (Twitter owner) that is attacked, including a television station owned by Fox News and performers Britney Spears.
Obama's false message inviting the recipient to go through a survey with iming-iming presents 500 U.S. dollars or equivalent to the price of gas in the U.S., while the message from the claimant CNN announcer inform the penggemarnya that raspy voice so that the most likely not be broadcast Monday that.
Twitter is also a target phishing attacks (piracy password, username, and crucial information in other e-mail and the like) for a holiday yesterday. However, Stone said that pentetakan incident was not related to phishing activity.
According to a study, Twitter, which allows its users to send and update information with no more than 140 characters (including punctuation), is estimated to have been dilanggani by 4 million to 5 million people.
Launched in August 2006, appear get some response from the celebrities, including Barack Obama who has more than 150,000 fans and the holder of four rings champion from the NBA Phoenix Suns, Shaquille O'Neal pebolabasket.
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