Twitter unauthorised access via 'happiness'

Synopsis

In January 2009, an 18-year-old hacker, known as GMZ, gained unauthorized access to Twitter's administrative control panel. This breach was accomplished using a dictionary attack, targeting the account of a Twitter support staff member who had the eas...

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