" Unauthorized Access: An Update on Security
This week, unauthorized access to Twitter was gained by an outside party. Our initial security reviews and investigations indicate that no account information was altered or removed in any way. However, we discovered that 10 individual accounts were viewed during this unauthorized access.

Personal information that may have been viewed on these 10 individual accounts includes email address, mobile phone number (if one was associated with the account), and the list of accounts blocked by that user. We have personally contacted Twitter users whose accounts were compromised via this unauthorized access.

Password information was not revealed or altered, nor were personal messages (direct messages) viewed. Twitter takes security very seriously so we will be conducting a thorough, independent security audit of all internal systems and implementing additional anti-intrusion measures to further safeguard user data."

This was taken directly from the twitter blog. It appears that the French hacker only gained access to some celebrities accounts and saw what users they had blocked and got their email addresses. Doesn't seem like too big of a deal.
Source(s):
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/04/unauthorized-access-update-on-security.html

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