“Earlier this week, hackers gained access to Twitter’s internal systems and stole information, compromising 250,000 accounts before the breach was stopped.
Bob Lord, the company’s manager of network security, reported the incident on Twitter’s official blog Friday.
Twitter is resetting passwords for the affected users.
Twitter’s Lord did not specify the method by which hackers penetrated its system. However, he mentioned vulnerabilities related to Java in Apple’s Safari Web browser and Mozilla’s Firefox browser, and noted an advisory from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that users disable Java on their computers.
There are also suggestions in Lord’s post that the hacking attempt was organized, and possibly linked to recent cyberattacks on other media institutions like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Lord wrote…”
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