{"id":290,"date":"2016-06-13T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/?p=290"},"modified":"2016-08-07T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:04:00","slug":"32-million-passwords-for-twitter-accounts-may-have-been-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/32-million-passwords-for-twitter-accounts-may-have-been-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"32 Million Passwords for Twitter Accounts May Have Been Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yet another hack for users of popular social media sites to worry about. LeakedSource<\/a>, a website with a search engine of leaked login credentials, stated in a blog post that 32 million Twitter login credentials were collected by hackers and are now being sold on the dark web. However, Twitter has stated that their systems have not been breached.<\/p>\n

LeakedSource said in their blog post that it received a copy of the user information from \u201cTessa88@exploit.im\u201d, which happens to be the same alias name used by the person who\u2019s linked to the recent Myspace, LinkedIn and Tumblr data breach. LeakedSource also states that its unlikely Twitter was breached and rather the consumer was. They pointed out that malware may be the culprit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe explanation for this is that tens of millions of people have become infected by a malware, and the malware sent every saved username and password from browsers, like Chrome \u00a0and Firefox, back to the hackers from all websites including Twitter.\u201d the blog post<\/a> states. LeakedSource said that it was able to verify the passwords associated with 15 users.<\/p>\n

Twitter writes in blog post \u201cWe\u2019ve investigated the claims of Twitter @names and passwords available on the \u201cdark web\u201d, and we\u2019re confident the information was not obtained from a hack of\u00a0Twitters servers.\u201d And goes on to say \u201cThe purported Twitter @names and passwords may have been amassed from combining information from other recent breaches, malware on victim machines that are stealing passwords for all sites, or a combination of both. Regardless of origin, we\u2019re acting swiftly to protect your Twitter account.\u201d<\/p>\n

As LeakedSource says in their blog post, \u201cThe lesson here? It\u2019s not just big companies that can be hacked, users need to be careful too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be sure to protect yourself as much as possible from potential hackers. Contact Up and Running Computer Solutions in Corona, CA 951-737-8558 to learn how to best protect you and your family from cyber attacks. Or visit <\/strong>www.urcs.net<\/strong><\/a> for information regarding the services we offer here URCS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up and Running Computer Solutions proudly serves Corona, Riverside, Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Tustin and all surrounding areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another hack for users of popular social media sites to worry about. LeakedSource, a website with a search engine of leaked login credentials, stated in a blog post that 32 million Twitter login credentials were collected by hackers and are now being sold on the dark web. However, Twitter has stated that their systems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[80,60,38,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}