Anonymous hackers have targeted Twitter this week and gained access to roughly 250,000 user accounts though only "limited information" such as email addresses was compromised, the microblog said on Friday
The company wrote in a blog post ironically titled �Keeping our users secure� that it detected unusual patterns this week that led it to identify attempts to access user data..
The email, forwarded to Wired by one reader who received one, reads: -- �Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter,� it reads. �We�ve reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.�
The email also warns users to �Avoid using websites or services that promise to get you lots of followers. These sites have been known to send spam updates and damage user accounts.�
Lord did not explain how the attackers got in and accessed the data, but said that he did not believe Twitter was the only company targeted.
�This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,� he wrote. �The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users�.
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