Major Security Breech at Twitter

February 27, 2008 Filed under: Web Startup

Tonight, there was a major security breech at Twitter.com. Around 11:15pm EST, users, like Path101 CTO Alex Lines, reported being directed to the account pages of random users when logging on to the service, exposing email addresses and potentially allowing him to edit passwords and make other alterations. In a "tweet" right before the service went offline, Alex said,

wtf is wrong w twitter if i go 2 my accnt pages get a diff accnt evry time w full access! can see email adrs could be chnging user passwds

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