Weak Password Brings ‘Happiness’ to Twitter Hacker - AllThingsD
Fri, Jan 9th, 2009
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An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday’s hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama’s, and the official feed for Fox News.
The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter’s administrative control panel by pointing an automated password-guesser at a popular user’s account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter’s support staff, who’d chosen the weak password "happiness."
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matheusiani: caralho, o twitter do barack obama !Sat, Jul 4th, 2009 3:30 PM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
MovieMomentsFF: OMFG... Barack Obama has Twitter! I'm not even gonna start at how weird it is that the president of the USA has a twitter account.Sat, Jul 4th, 2009 2:53 PM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
malteeaser101: lol Barack Obama has a confirmed twitter account, ha ha ha rocksSat, Jul 4th, 2009 2:37 PM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
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did the Twitter Admin change his password to “sadness” after he was hacked? haha… ok not funny