Hacker gains access to secret Twitter docs

He goes by the name of Hacker Croll, and is simply trying to teach Internet users a lesson

Technology trends and news by Chris Caceres
July 15, 2009 | Comments
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 "No one is protected on the Net," was Hacker Croll's message to the world.

Apparently, the hack occurred in May, but yesterday, Croll, reached out to TechCrunch and a French blog titled Korben, to share the information he attained from hacking into Twitter.   This hacker is also responsible for gaining access to the accounts of Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears.

The information, which TechCrunch describes as a zip file containing 310 documents, ranges from, “executive meeting notes, partner agreements, financial projections to the meal preferences, calendars and phone logs of various Twitter employees.”

So what’s been leaked?  Well, while TechCrunch took the time to write up a secret pitch for a Twitter TV show which it published today, the French web site Korben decided to share more details about the package, including the fact Hacker Croll gained access information for some of Twitter’s accounts, including Paypal, Amazon, Apple, AT & T, and even Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter.)  Along with that, the hacker was able to access confidential contracts with Nokia, Samsung, Dell, AOL and Microsoft.

Another interesting piece of info breached by the hacker was forecasts that Twitter would grow to 350 million users at the end of 2011.

Neither of the sites have published any highly sensitive information, in fact, Korben explained,

“I am merely relaying only part of the Hacker Croll info and what I can tell the team of Twitter is that the attacker has the air of being a true hacker with a code of conduct, which will not affect the company.”

In the end, Hacker Croll seems to have no intention of harming Twitter, but instead teach users across the Web a simple lesson, “no one is protected on the Net.”  He wrote to Korben,

“Security starts with simple things like the secret questions, whose utility many people ignore, and the impact that that can have on their private lives if a pirate was able to circumvent them.”


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