It appears that over 700 tweeters have been duped into going to visit a 23yo girls webcam and somehow their twitter accounts are being hijacked.
According to CNet, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed the attack and said the company had reset the passwords of the compromised accounts and removed the “spammy updates.”
“Today we discovered about 750 Twitter accounts were broken into and had a link to a webcam site posted on the accounts,” he wrote on his blog. It appears other sites and services have been affected by a similar attack.
Stone urged people to use strong passwords for their Twitter accounts and not to share passwords with anyone.
“It appears that there is a rash of Twitter account hijacking going on this evening,” Ferguson wrote.
“Obviously we recommend against clicking on this link, it leads to a porn Webcam portal which looks to have been designed with credit card harvesting in mind,” he wrote. “Affected users should change their password to a secure one as soon as possible.”
The thing I don’t get is why are people still falling for tricks like this and what would prompt you to give away your password once you did click on the link? I guess I just don’t get it! Oh yeah, tip of the day! Don’t give a way your password.
