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pcernie

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Twitter: Account hack affects 250,000 users

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049

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Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:25 pm

jonbwfc

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Re: Twitter: Account hack affects 250,000 users

250,000 is actually a very small part of the total twitter population, so the risk to any individual is quite small. Looks bad for twitter's admins though.

Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:09 pm

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Re: Twitter: Account hack affects 250,000 users

Well my account seems okay, but then I do not use it that much. My password is strong and I rarely add followers.

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Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:18 pm

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Re: Twitter: Account hack affects 250,000 users


	jonbwfc wrote: 250,000 is actually a very small part of the total twitter population, so the risk to any individual is quite small. Looks bad for twitter's admins though.

Yes it is barely more than one tenth of one per cent. So it is more embarrassing than anything else.

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