Gizmodo sees Twitter account hacked

[JMH]

former Gizmodo employee had his Twitter account breached, and the hackers then used it to crack the gadget site's Twitter account and send out racist tweets yesterday. Talk about a bad day.
Emil Protalinski at CNET sister site ZDNet has the story.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57...?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Security&Privacy

 

[LilBambi]

Read about the hack originally from Mat Honan's Tumblr blog post: Yes, I was hacked. Hard. -
Emptyage - Mat Honan's Tumblr

What a mess. Social engineering used on AppleCare geniuses and they had enough info about Mat to actually get them to think they were Mat and got them to issue a temporary password to his iCloud account. And the rest is history....big mess. Mostly fixed but this should not be able to happen.