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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Randal L. Schwartz, a notable Perl programming expert, in 1995 was prosecuted for using Crack [8] [9] on the password file of a system at Intel, a case the verdict of which was eventually expunged. [10] Crack was also used by Kevin Mitnick when hacking into Sun Microsystems in 1993. [11]
The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission. Most often, social hacking attacks are achieved by impersonating an individual or group who is directly or indirectly known to the victims or by representing an individual or group in a position of authority. [1]
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In December 2009, the company experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. The company used an unencrypted database to store user account data, including plaintext passwords (as opposed to password hashes) for its service, as well as passwords to connected accounts at partner sites (including Facebook, Myspace, and webmail services).
OurMine is a hacker group [2] that is known for hacking popular accounts and websites, such as Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter accounts. The group often causes cybervandalism to advertise their commercial services, [3] [4] [5] which is among the reasons why they are not widely considered to be a "white hat" group.
Sub7, or SubSeven or Sub7Server, is a Trojan horse - more specifically a Remote Trojan Horse - program originally released in February 1999. [1] [2] [3]Because its typical use is to allow undetected and unauthorized access, Sub7 is usually described as a trojan horse by security experts.
Hacking Paris Hilton's cell phone, accessing LexisNexis, and defacing Burger King's Twitter account Cameron LaCroix , aka camo , cam0 , camZero , cmuNNY , is a Former American computer hacker best known for the hacking of Paris Hilton 's cellular phone, [ 2 ] accessing LexisNexis , and defacing the twitter accounts of Jeep and Burger King back ...