French hacker gains access to Twitter's admin panel
UPDATE: The Twitter admin hack appears to be the result of a successful social engineering attack against one of Twitter's employees -- similar attack took place in January this year. Here's a retrospective of the events that took place.
Yesterday, a French hacker claimed to have gained access to Twitter's administration panel, and based on the screen shots that he included featuring internal data for accounts belonging to U.S President Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, and Lily Allen, as well as a detailed overview of different sections behind the scenes of Twitter, his claims seem pretty legitimate.
The attack comes two weeks after multiple variants of Mickeyy's XSS worm hit the continuously growing micro-blogging service.
Interestingly, Hacker Croll goes into more details regarding the compromise on a different forum - "one of the admins has a yahoo account, i've reset the password by answering to the secret question. Then, in the mailbox, i have found her twitter password." and that he "used social engineering only, no exploit, no xss vulnerability, no backdoor, no sql injection".
Similar password reset attack contributed to the successful hacking of Sarah Palin's personal email account in September last year.