Hacker broke into Twitter e-mail with help from Hotmail
The hacker who stole confidential Twitter documents used a feature of Microsoft’s Hotmail to hijack an employee’s work e-mail account, the site that has published some of the Twitter documents said Sunday.
According to TechCrunch, the Web site that last week broke the story about the Twitter breach and has posted some of the stolen information, the hacker calling himself Hacker Croll took advantage of poor password practices, Hotmail’s inactive account feature and personal information on the Web to pinch hundreds of Twitter documents.
TechCrunch said it convinced Hacker Croll to divulge the details of his attack, and over the course of several days’ conversations was able to piece together not only the original breach, but how some information he obtained allowed him to compromise the e-mail accounts of Evan Williams, Twitter’s CEO, and one of its co-founders, Biz Stone.
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