TweetDeck suffered a big hack on Wednesday that forced the service to shut itself down for all users.
For those who don't know, Tweetdeck is a popular program used by Twitter obsessives to manage multiple Twitter accounts and sift through the daily torrent of tweets. If you're still logged in to TweetDeck, you should log out now and go to your Twitter settings in order to revoke access to the app.
The vulnerability lets hackers push alert boxes containing any random text to tweeters. Naturally, Twitter users are seeing vulgarities:
Lots of them:
And some Rickrolling:
The security hole was discovered by a 19-year-old Austrian teenager named Florian, CNNMoney reported. He said he stumbled upon the vulnerability after tweeting the ♥ symbol, which inadvertently opened up a security hole that other hackers could exploit.
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This entry was updated with information on the identity of the teenager who discovered the security bug.
We've temporarily taken TweetDeck services down to assess today's earlier security issue. We'll update when services are back up.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014For those who don't know, Tweetdeck is a popular program used by Twitter obsessives to manage multiple Twitter accounts and sift through the daily torrent of tweets. If you're still logged in to TweetDeck, you should log out now and go to your Twitter settings in order to revoke access to the app.
A security issue that affected TweetDeck this morning has been fixed. Please log out of TweetDeck and log back in to fully apply the fix.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014The vulnerability lets hackers push alert boxes containing any random text to tweeters. Naturally, Twitter users are seeing vulgarities:
Tweetdeck XSS pic.twitter.com/tgT9w0bZ1q
— Andreas Lindh (@addelindh) June 11, 2014Lots of them:
Als ich #TweetDeck geöffnet habe und dieses Fenster sah, fühlte ich mich schon fast persönlich angegriffen^^ pic.twitter.com/UvQqTlKeBw
— • (@Negiert) June 11, 2014And some Rickrolling:
hackers from 2007 are currently rickrolling ppl on TweetDeck tho pic.twitter.com/HfO03OiLjy
— Anthony B. L. Smith (@AnthonyBLSmith) June 11, 2014The security hole was discovered by a 19-year-old Austrian teenager named Florian, CNNMoney reported. He said he stumbled upon the vulnerability after tweeting the ♥ symbol, which inadvertently opened up a security hole that other hackers could exploit.
This entry was updated with information on the identity of the teenager who discovered the security bug.