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Manu Zacharia (-M-)

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Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« on: March 25, 2010, 12:55:05 PM »

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According to Reuters, a 25 year old Frenchman successfully hacked into President Obama and Britney Spears' Twitter accounts. Using Twitter administrator passwords, the man was able to break into virtually anyone's account. Thankfully, the hacker was not able to extract their personal account information.

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Re: Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2010, 12:56:19 PM »

LOL... dunno which is worse. The president or Britney Spears... Tongue


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Re: Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2010, 08:02:09 PM »

I am not sure if the President feels worse about his account being hacked or that he was targeted along with Britney Spears.


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Re: Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2010, 12:26:42 PM »

Yes, but he says he is a "Nice Hacker".

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/26/man-suspected-of-cracking-twitter-accounts-im-a-nice-hacker/?hpt=T2

I am sure he will be OK and won't get into any trouble.


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Re: Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2010, 12:53:18 PM »

More than likely he will get a job out of it... However, France has particularly strong laws relating to computer crime and cyber attacks and is known to be strict

We shall see..


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Re: Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2010, 03:11:49 PM »

Here he is - don't know if anyone knows french but just incase:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt0I7xqpfgM


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Re: Obama's Twitter account hijacked by French hacker

« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2010, 03:56:13 PM »

It's common that famous people are more likely targeted by others, so I'd say nothing too exceptionally here, expect the Spears thing. Cheesy


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