Twitter and FTC Settle Over Hacked Accounts

 

Twitter has settled with the Federal Trade commission after complaints that some of its accounts were hacked. The FTC claimed that "serious lapses" in data security at the social media site had allowed hackers to infiltrate users' Twitter accounts and send out fake tweets. Just 55 of them were accessed, 45 in January 2009, and 10 in April of the same year. One of those, however, happened to be that of President Obama.

The site was breached when hackers used an automated tool to guess the...