Hit Your Market » Twitter http://hityourmarket.com/articles “You can't sit around and wait for the storm to be over. You've got to learn how to dance in the rain.” Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:35:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Twitter: How not to pick a password http://hityourmarket.com/articles/2009/05/24/twitter-how-not-to-pick-a-password/ http://hityourmarket.com/articles/2009/05/24/twitter-how-not-to-pick-a-password/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 11:39:38 +0000 Lee Johnson http://www.seodesignstudio.com/?p=64

Apparently some hacker had got into Twitter’s servers and downloaded a fair amount of confidential information. Listed below are some of the documents that the hacker managed to download:

LOCKED DRIVE

  • employment agreements of the founders
  • new employee interview schedules
  • phone logs and bills
  • alarm settings
  • financial forecast
  • a pitch for a Twitter TV show
  • confidentiality agreements with companies such as :AOL, Dell, Ericsson and Nokia
  • a list of employee dietary restrictions
  • credit card numbers
  • PayPal and Gmail screen shots

Guess this is a good lesson for those big companies who have confidential documents on their servers, don’t behave like Twitter and leave your server password as “password”. This has just got to be one of the must stupid stories of 2009. I can not believe such a big player can be so backward when their site is so forward thinking.

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