Confidential documents are stolen from Twitter

Hacker Wallpaper 1280x1024 by Pengo1 Confidential documents are stolen from Twitter

A hacker had access more than executives’ 300 secret documents of Twitter and published the information in the internet on this Wednesday.

The documents that they were stored in Google Apps, package of productivity online of Google, include strategic information on employees of the microblog, financial data of the company, agreements and other themes.

The hacker, that identifies as Hacker Croll, affirms to have accessed, in May, a series of documents involving partnerships between Twitter and the companies AOL, Dell, Microsoft, Nokia and Samsung, as well as curricula from several peoples in Twitter, bank information of employees of the company, plans of businesses, low plants and access codes to the dependences of Twitter.

In agreement with the blog Bits, of the newspaper The New Times, the invader seems to have accessed several bills of employees’ e-mail, including Evan Williams, main executive of Twitter, and his wife, that doesn’t work in the company.

The hacker affirms that accessed the bills of these people in the services Google Apps, Gmail, PayPal, Amazon, Apple, AT&T and MobileMe.

In an official report in the blog of Twitter on this Wednesday, Biz Stone, co-founder of the company, said that the hacker indeed invaded a bill of an e-mail account from a employee of the administrative team and had access to the applications shared by the employees by Google Apps.

The executive guaranteed that users of the microblog information were not committed.

Via: NYT.

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