A quarter of a million Twitter users may have had their passwords and email addresses stolen by hackers, the social networking site has warned.
The security breach is one of the biggest to ever affect Twitter, which has 200 million active users, and highlights growing concerns over the danger of so-called cyber attacks.
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Twitter said it had warned all the users who had their passwords stolen, and reset them to stop further risk.
But security experts warned that the hackers had possession of a potentially valuable cache of information, as many people’s Twitter passwords are identical to those they use for other purposes, including banking.
There is also a risk that Twitter’s “internal network” has been compromised by the hacking, which could potentially compromose other information.
Read more at The Telegraph.
