{"id":8981,"date":"2010-03-07T22:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T14:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2010-03-07T22:19:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T14:19:30","slug":"twitter-accounts-hacked-and-sending-out-weight-loss-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/twitter-accounts-hacked-and-sending-out-weight-loss-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Accounts Hacked and Sending Out Weight Loss Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some hundreds of Twitter accounts were hacked and were sending out weight loss message to their followers. So, please check your account if they are sending out nonsense or not. It seems that the attack is via API. That means if you have authorized some APIs to allow access, you might want to check them again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8982\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/twitter-accounts-hacked-and-sending-out-weight-loss-messages\/dvorakhacktwitter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg?fit=552%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"552,288\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dvorakhacktwitter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg?fit=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg?fit=552%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8982 aligncenter\" title=\"dvorakhacktwitter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg?resize=540%2C282\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg?w=552&amp;ssl=1 552w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/dvorakhacktwitter.jpg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/chetw\/g\/2010\/03\/06\/john-dvorak-falls-victim-twitter-hacking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More about The Attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/03\/06\/twitter-accounts-hacked\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/chetw\/g\/2010\/03\/06\/john-dvorak-falls-victim-twitter-hacking\/\" target=\"_blank\">source2<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some hundreds of Twitter accounts were hacked and were sending out weight loss message to their followers. So, please check your account if they are sending out nonsense or not. It seems that the attack is via API. That means if you have authorized some APIs to allow access, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1509,4,14],"tags":[1235,1088,145,1976],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-information","category-techie","tag-api","tag-hack","tag-twitter","tag-weight-loss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-2kR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}