PASSWORD GUESSING ATTACK EXPOSED IN TWITTER PWN
Posted January 8, 2009
The pursuit of ‘happiness’
Miscreants broke into Twitter’s admin system on Sunday night using a simple password guessing hack, it has emerged.
A teenage hacker, known in the digital underground as GMZ, claims he obtained access to the micro-blogging site’s admin controls using a brute force dictionary attack. After guessing the login identity of an administrator, in part based on the large number of people she followed, GMZ ran an automated password guessing program overnight to reveal that ‘Crystal’ used the eminently guessable password of “happiness”. The 18-year-old student then used these details to offer up access to Twitter accounts on request through Digital Gangster, an underground hacker forum, Wired reports.
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coffee buzz wrote:
did the Twitter Admin change his password to “sadness” after he was hacked? haha… ok not funny