Britney Spears’ Twitpic Account Hacked

Relax, Britney Spears is just fine. The singer was just the victim of yet another Twitter hack over the weekend, along with talk-show host/ comedian Ellen DeGeneres. According to The Associated Press, hackers broke into Spears’ and DeGeneres’ Twitpic accounts and sent out fake messages, including one that said Britney was dead. “Britney has passed today,” one of the fake messages said. “It is a sad day for everyone. More news to come.”Twitpic, a Web-based messaging system that is not owned by Twitter, allows users of the micro-blogging site to share photos. Twitpic service shut down briefly on Sunday after discovering what the Charleston, South Carolina-based company called a “vulnerability” in its mobile posting service. In a note to users, Twitpic asks users to disregard the message about Spears’ alleged death and promised that the company was “implementing a fix immediately.”

The attackers, apparently preying on the fact that several notable celebrities died last week, including Michael Jackson, were able to post a message to Spears’ Twitter profile that claimed she, too, had passed away. Twitpic founder Noah Everett, in a blog post Monday, said the attackers used a technique known as brute force to guess the email PINs of about 10 users, which they were able to use to automatically post messages to various Twitter pages. Everett did not address Spears by name in his post.The intruders tried every possible combination of the PIN until they got it right, Everett said. Twitpic has since fixed the vulnerability. “I want to stress that no account information was compromised,” he wrote. “The vulnerability only allowed someone to post a photo to Twitpic/Twitter on someone’s behalf, but did not allow access to their account in any way. Once we were made aware of the issue, we immediately began working on a fix and also shut down [our] email system to prevent any unauthorized posting”. The post has been removed from Spears’ account.

The image on Spears’ Twitpic account and the associated post have been deleted, and Brit’s staff posted a message reassuring fans that she is alive and well. Social-media news site Mashable also reported that producer/rapper Diddy’s page had been attacked with a similar false death report. Spears has been Twitter-hacked in the past, including earlier this year, when a malicious hacker posted rude comments about her in an attack that also pinpointed the accounts of then President-elect Obama, Fox News and CNN anchor Rick Sanchez.

By: maryarn

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