Twitter Settles with FTC Privacy Complaint Over Hacked Celebrity Accounts
Twitter has settled a case with the FTC over concerns that it could not offer the level of security it promised in its original privacy policy. The case stemmed from two separate attacks in 2009, resulting in the hacking of high profile Twitter accounts like Ashton Kutcher and Barack Obama.
The incidents in 2009 involved hackers breaking into the administrative backend of Twitter and gaining access to employee passwords. They then used those passwords to take over over 50 Twitter accounts, including those of Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, Fox News, Barack Obama and others.
The hacker was able to post tweets from these accounts, as well as read private messages and view who was on the Twitterati’s block lists.
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