{"id":8802,"date":"2009-07-15T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-15T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T11:26:00","slug":"twitter-accounts-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/8802-twitter-accounts-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter accounts hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data swiped from Twitter employees was shown on a French website on Tuesday and TechCrunch technology news website quoted Williams confirming the hacks in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Information lifted from hacked accounts was said to include resumes, salary figures, credit card numbers, message exchanges with celebrities, and a roster of employees as well as their food preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Also uncovered were floor plans for the firm&#8217;s new offices in San Francisco as well as mention of a possible reality television show based on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker, identified by the name &#8220;Hacker Croll&#8221;, claimed to be able to get into Amazon, PayPal, and other accounts belonging to Williams and other Twitter employees.<\/p>\n<p>The French blogging website posted a message in which Croll supposedly says &#8220;even the biggest and the strongest do silly things and I hope this will help them realise that nobody is safe on the net&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch quoted Williams as saying that most of the sensitive information stolen was personal and that &#8220;this was highly distressing to myself, my wife, and other Twitter employees who were attacked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has reportedly ramped up security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=182266\"><strong>Twitter accounts hacked<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker believed to have struck celebrity Twitter accounts previously has reportedly broken into accounts of the microblogging service&#039;s workers including co-founder Evan Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}