Twitter is getting hacked???

2009 April 17
by Paul O'Flaherty

Sara just spotted what appears to be hacking of twitter accounts. Check out these screengrabs of @bobbyzeez and @BabyPatches.

Bobbyzeez

BabyPatches

As you can see a twitter search for the term “mikey” is displaying a huge number of accounts being compromised that is increasing very very rapidly.

Twittersearch

My advice for now, is to sign out of the web interface, change your password and see what happens.

UPADATE: 17th April 20:49

It appears that this is a resurgence of the Mikeyy worm from last week (albeit with somewhat different output! See this mashable post for details of how to deal with it.

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  1. April 17, 2009

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    (via @pauloflaherty) Twitter getting hacked??? Please RT – http://bit.ly/qPaVv

  6. April 17, 2009

    RT @pauloflaherty: The Twitter hack/worm continues to spread from account to account http://twitpic.com/3gzxw http://bit.ly/qPaVv

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