An anonymous source, (but not the hacker group that goes by the name “Anonymous”) has hacked more than 55,000 Twitter accounts. This includes the username and password of each of the compromised Twitter accounts.
Was yours one of the thousands that were hacked? There is a huge list of the Twitter accounts that were affected that you can sort through. Someone put them onto Pastebin. There are so many of them that the list had to be split into five separate lists.
They are: Page One, Page Two, Page Three, Page Four, and Page Five. According to AirDemon.net You can find your account by using the find feature in your browser (CTRL + F) and typing in your email ID.
At this time, it appears that Twitter has disabled many of the accounts that were hacked. A spokesperson from Twitter said:
“We’ve discovered that the list of alleged accounts and passwords found on Pastebin consists of more than 20,000 duplicates, many spam accounts that have already been suspended and many login credentials that do not appear to be linked – that is, the password and username are not actually associated with each other”.
It sounds to me like perhaps, some anonymous hacker decided to take action against the plethora of spam accounts that keep popping up on Twitter, (since Twitter doesn’t seem to do a whole lot to get rid of them or prevent new spammers from appearing). We are all tired of being followed by spam Twitter accounts. Perhaps the anonymous hacker is sort of acting like a modern day “Robin Hood”, only, instead of taking money from the rich and redistributing it to the poor, he or she is taking spam accounts from Twitter, and making Twitter do something about them.
If you are concerned that your Twitter account is among the thousands that were hacked, you might want to go ahead and change your password. Those of you that connected your Twitter account to your Facebook account, or other forms of social media, might want to check to see if those connected accounts have been affected as a result of the hacked Twitter accounts.