Micro-blogging service Twitter was attacked by a computer worm during Easter weekend, a co-founder of the website messaging company said.<\/p>\n
"On a weekend normally reserved for bunnies, a worm took centre stage," Biz Stone said in a post on the official blog of the San Francisco-based company.<\/p>\n
Stone said the self-replicating computer worm, which resulted in users of the service receiving and sending unwanted messages, had not caused any damage.<\/p>\n
"Please note that no passwords, phone numbers or sensitive information was compromised in these attacks." <\/p>\n
Stone said Twitter had come under attack on four occasions from the worm, which the online technology news agency CNET said was created by a 17-year-old New York hacker.<\/p>\n
"We identified and deleted about 10 000 tweets [messages] that could have continued to spread the worm." <\/p>\n
He said that the worm was similar to the Samy computer worm, which recently attacked social network MySpace. <\/p>\n
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