by Steve W
21. September 2010 05:37
Twitter became the latest target for hackers today when a security hole in their “re-tweet” method was sending users who moused-over the links to everything from hardcore adult sites to online games and Google Adword clicks.
Thousands of users, potentially tens of thousands, were affected by the hack which automatically sends out a re-tweet when moused over. Twitter currently has over 145 million users.
"We expect the patch to be rolled out shortly and will update again when it is," the San Francisco-based service said a brief statement on its website.
The bug thankfully only affected people logged on to Twitter.com, and not any third party or link software. The infected links look like regular messages, or "tweets," but contain lines of random computer code or are completely blacked out like a message that has been redacted.
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