Cracker Attack Twitter Obama

Washington - The cracker wage cyber attacks to break dozens of accounts belonging to popular figures in the popular blogging site Twitter micro.

Quoted detikINET from ComputerWorld, Tuesday (6/1/2009), the account so that victims of property including the United States elected president, Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears, and of television CNN Rick Sanchez.

"We found 33 accounts have been in the Twitter-hack," said the founder of Twitter, Biz Stone in a company blog. "We immediately closed the account and investigate this case. Barack and other victims have now returned to control each account,"

Account the hack is the cracker was used to send the messages pitched inconsequential. For example, as dilansir AFP, Obama used the account to invite people to follow a number of surveys berhadiah money.

According to Twitter, the account dibobol the internal support tool. Security issues such as this is not the first time overwrite Twitter. In fact, only a few moments earlier, also found cases of phishing so users can terkecoh with the bogus site Twitter.

However, some security experts praised the step Twitter in various anticipate security problems so that it does not bring more victims.