Twitter makes the news once again. Another reminder about the vulnerabilities of cloud services and why it is so critically important that businesses maintain sound IT security practices.

Late in January, Twitter suffered down time causing users of the popular social media service to go through some pretty serious withdrawal.  However, this latest security breach caused alarm bells to go off throughout the business and casual Twitter universe.

Twitter claims they were the target of a sophisticated attack. The company wrote in their Twitter blog that they detected unusual patterns that led it to identify attempts to access user information.

Bob Lord, Twitter’s Director of Information Security wrote in the Twitter blog “We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later.” Further investigation identified that the attackers may have accessed some user information such as usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted passwords of approximately a quarter million Twitter users.

This Twitter attack was the work of seasoned Internet hackers and it is believed that it is part of the same attack that hit other leading websites recently.

Twitter also advices their users to avoid the use of websites that promise to get you lots of followers. These sites are known sources of spam.

Anything online must be secured including your corporate Twitter account. Our team of IT security professionals takes your corporate IT security seriously and this Twitter attack is another reminder of needing corporate IT security policies in place and regular tests implemented to ensure all systems work.

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