
"An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday's hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama's, and the official feed for Fox News.
The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter's administrative control panel by pointing an automated password-guesser at a popular user's account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter's support staff, who'd chosen the weak password "happiness.""
i'm surprised there is no limit to the amount of login attempts you can do on Twitter.
Well you do have to give up your UN and PW for most outside twitter apps as well. They don't use an API Key like Facebook does.
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