If you hopped onto Twitter while drinking your morning coffee and you saw some weirdness, you’re not alone. Apparently, early Tuesday morning, Twitter was the victim of a hacking attack. Basically, what happened was some sort of mouse-over hijack got inserted into Twitter. If you moused over an affected link, even without clicking on it, you sent spam messages to your followers, inserted junk links in direct messages, and you yourself had your browser hijacked and redirected to all manner of porn sites, virus depositories, and other bad things.
It kind of makes you long for the days when only the individual Twitter accounts of famous people got hacked, doesn’t it?
Apparently, the damage has been undone and the exploit has been put to a stop. Still, I’d be careful about browsing through your history if you’ve yet to hop onto your Twitter account this morning (unless you use TweetDeck or another third-party Twitter software). That is, unless you’re on the new Twitter. Only the old Twitter was affected, as far as I know.
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