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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Twitter Account of PayPal's allegedly Attacked by Hackers

LONDON - British PayPal Twitter Account on Tuesday, hackers hijacked, and the perpetrators used that account to post a tweet that it attacked the company's payment services. "PayPal has frozen all my money for no reason," Beep tweet written by the hacker. In addition, hackers hijack the PayPal account for PayPal criticized a number of shortcomings such as security. Similarly, as quoted from the Tech World, on Wednesday (07/06/2011).

Twitter Account of PayPal's allegedly Attacked by Hackers


The hijacking came after Fox News's Twitter account is also hijacked, with a tweet lie that Barack Obama mentions that the president was shot twice.

While the PayPal confirmed that they are separate Twitter account to the PayPal site. "No user data is exposed to attacks," he added.

In a tweet that mentions the security of a Twitter account, PayPal apologized and said that everything was controlled. PayPal of British party had also delete tweet written hacker.

Twitter is now widely used for business and government sectors to communicate with the public. But the hijacking of two big accounts this week to make enough doubt on Twitter greater security.