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Twitter Hacked – Twitter Follower Stats Vanish During Bug Fix

As users saw their Twitter follower stats fall to zero, “Twitter hacked” was the headline on Monday. In just one second of time, Twitter users saw their Twitter follow stats disappear. This whole idea of “Twitter hacked” ended up being just a media wildfire rumor. Twitter’s follow stats display was disabled by Twitter itself to fix a bug that allowed Twitter users to force others to be their Twitter followers. It isn’t the first recent social media security issues. Twitter hacked could have been worse compared to Blippy exposing credit card numbers online and Facebook phishing scams.

Twitter follow bug exposed in Twitter hacked scandal

Part of the Twitter being hacked rumor was that Twitter users were led to believe that Twitter was hacked after a Turkish blog exposed the Twitter follow bug and offered instructions on how to exploit it. Caroline Mccarthy at CNET reports that another blog jumped on board the same day loan of scandalous intel. Webrazzi ended up forcing the Twitter accounts of Twitter CEO Evan Williams and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to follow a dummy profile. The bug allowed Twitter members to add followers by tweeting “accept” followed by “@” and any registered Twitter user name.

Twitter followers becomes none

After “Twitter hacked” headlines started on Monday, Twitter sent a notice on the company’s Twitter feed that everyone’s Twitter follower states were affected while the bug was being fixed. “Follow count display is set to zero and follow/unfollow is temporarily offline while we fix a bug,” Twitter stated at 1:02 p.m. eastern time. MSNBC reported that the follower lists were restored back to where they were originally by 2:15 p.m.

Twitter hacked directly after Facebook phishing

The Twitter hacked story is right on the heels of the Facebook phishing scam. According to pehub.com, a Facebook event invitation was sent to some of the over 2,300 friends of Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist who sits on Facebook’s board of directors. Breyer’s Facebook friends checking their E-mail Sunday morning saw a note asking “Would you like a Facebook phone number?” This thing was also sent to all of the friends of the people that entered in their password in response to the message from Breyer.

Twitter followers beware Blippy

Twitter being hacked and Facebook phishing has sparked a huge debate that has social media users wondering very much just how secure their personal information is and what companies like Facebook and Twitter are doing with it. One of the scariest social media security incidents adding to this debate is that of Blippy exposing credit card numbers online. Blippy invites users to use the social networking service to tell their friends about what they buy online. Those concerned about financial security should know that someone figured out how to find Blippy members’ credit card numbers on Google. Before Blippy fixed the flaw, a search showed 127 results that had full credit card numbers.

Article Resources

Caroline Mccarthy at CNET

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20004563-36.html

MSNBC reported

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37066547/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

pehub.com

http://www.pehub.com/71201/facebook-loses-face-board-member%E2%80%99s-account-is-breached/

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