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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8153122.stm In short: - Either an employee or Twitter as a policy matter put their financial projections etc on google docs. A user with access to these figures had a bad password for their web email - The users personal email was hacked by guessing the password, and access obtained to the google docs website Extract from the BBC article The hacker has claimed to have wanted to teach people to be more careful and in a message to the French blog Korben, wrote that his attack could make internet users "conscious that no one is protected on the net." "The security breach exploited "an easy-to-guess password and recovery question, which is one of the simplest ways to make a username and password combination really insecure," said Phil Wainewright of ZDNet.com "Unfortunately, users won't wise up until the cloud providers force them to." In a study last year the security firm Sophos found that 40% of internet users use the same password for every website they access. -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Thu Jul 16 06:50:44 BST 2009
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