Hemanth's Tech Blog

Last night, Twitter was hijacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army”; while there’ve been no confirmed password leaks or anything of the sort, now seems to us like a great time to change up your passwords. Here’s why:

The Twitter blog reported that the problem was due to compromised DNS records, meaning that the hackers were able to redirect user requests for Twitter.com to their own server—which served up the page in the screenshot above. Although the redirect doesn’t appear to have done anything malicious beyond that—and a DNS hijack doesn’t mean the hackers would have access to Twitter’s database—the hackers could just as easily have set up a fake login page and harvested plenty of passwords phishing-style if they had wanted to. Which is why—even though this DNS hijack appears to have been relatively benign—we think now’s a very good time to do a little password refreshing (which you should already do on occasion, anyway).

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