The phishing site that was set up to hoodwink Twitter’s users has a second front door that looks exactly like Facebook. The address of the fake Twitter site was twitter.access-login.com/login, but take out the “/login” part and you arrive at the dead-ringer for the Facebook homepage.
It all seems to point back to one person that goes by “Gmz” on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz obtained the account credentials and then posted them on DigitalGanster.
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn’t really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn’t the phishing scam that’s been going around–it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday.
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Stars using Twitter to post minute-to-minute updates for fans have given an inadvertent insight into their surprisingly mundane lives.
