If you ask me honestly abut Twitter in one sentence, Twitter is a service that is hardly reliable but very unique and interesting. Perhaps that was the USP which helped them in developing an enviable userbase despite having frequent server hangups and hacking attacks. With the newest threat that compromised thousands of information, Twitter Inc. employees have learned the hard way that, breaking into someone's e-mail can be child's play. For the third time this year, the San Francisco-based company was the victim of a security breach stemming from a simple end-run around its defenses. In the latest case, a hacker got the password for an employee's personal e-mail account — possibly by guessing, or by correctly answering a security question — and worked from there to steal confidential company documents.
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