Twitter hacking

That is the lovely Google "water on the moon' graphic from yesterday!

It is a bit late, but hopefully I may still help someone -- yesterday my twitter account got hacked! I received a direct message from one of my twitter friends, when I clicked on the link a page that looked exactly like the twitter login page came up and asked for my username and password. I didn't even think about it! I just entered the info. Had it been ebay or a site with my cc info it would have occurred to me not to entered any info -- just wasn't thinking about that with twitter. I feel very stupid right now. Anyhow, it then sent out a similar direct message to all my twitter friends. So if you are a twitter friend, delete any DM from me with a link. I do not sent DM with links, in fact, I don't even send direct messages very often. I am now back in control of my account, but those messages aren't from me.

I do not even understand the purpose of such a hacking, other than to cause people irritation. There is no money involved, nothing other than being able to send out more messages. It is irritating because many of my friends were wondering why I was sending out that link, which they knew was a phishing site. I don't know if it is because I use firefox, but others were warned by their browsers -- I was never warned about this site by my browser.

Everything is fixed now that I changed my password, but I apologize to anyone who got that message and may have clicked on the link.