On Dec. 17th the Twitter website was once again compromised, this time by a group identifying themselves as the “Iranian Cyber Army.” The hijacking appears to have been a result of compromised DNS records (according to the Twitter blog), which made it so that when users tried to access Twitter.com, they were redirected to a webpage on the hackers’ servers that looked similar to the picture below. 

We suggest that all Twitter users change there passwords because although a DNS attack doesn’t mean that the hackers had access to the Twitter database, the hackers could have set up a fake login page and collected usernames and passwords. To be safe, it’s probably a good idea to change your password.

As always, we recommend that you use a unique, strong password for each of your websites. If your Twitter password was different from your other passwords (which it should be), a hacker who might have obtained that password would be isolated to accessing your Twitter account, and not any others. Changing your Twitter password now will help protect against someone gaining unauthorized access to your Twitter account.

Of course, if you are using Mitto, remembering your new password is no problem because you can easily use our Bookmarklet (shown in our video below) to log yourself in.

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