Comments on: Oops! Twitter hack snares CNN anchor

Rick Sanchez is one of the microblogging service's most popular users, so a whole lot of people saw when his account displayed a message about being high on illicit substances.

[BeauGiles]

Oh, and it looks like @Facebook has been hacked too - http://tr.im/2yrs

[POOLCENTER]

Twitter has a link on the home page about this phishing scandal - but come on people! It's not too hard to combat phishing ~ just don't click through links in an email - if you get an email from a provider or service - just log into their homepage, and search for whatever the email says needs attention. Also ~ if you hover the link in an otherwise genuine looking email, if the domain for the link is not twitter.com - then its NOT twitter.com! Here's twitter's take on it http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/gone-phishing.html and a link to our blog, just because.... http://blog.poolcenter.com

[Draq Wraith]

lol still proves people click on urls & type with out thinking about possible hacks and phishing scams.

Good luck CNN's Rick Sanchez, Now you are the story!
D~W

[joshaidan]

You don't know if it was the phising scheme or not. For all we know it could of been one of the third party twitter apps he uses (which requires you to submit your password) that could have caused it. You shouldn't draw conclusion so quickly.

[BemusedReader]

We live in a part of the world where we had to put up with Sanchez, his grandstanding, his faux pax, and his grandiosity and egomania for far, far too long. Now he belongs to the cyberworld, which is most fitting: it doesn't really exist but rather, is the project of the imaginations and neuroses of those who spend so much of their time there. Atta boy, Rick: once again, you've managed to have attention called to you in a most undesirable way.

[EDuderino]

It could be worse. Sanchy could have gone out, gotten drunk, and hit someone with his car. Oh wait....

[selfkill]

Haha, that was golden.

[fuzbears]

Well the login screen from twitter does not have a certificate, and is not secure like a lot of other sites. Authentication is a problem on the web as it is common practice to not sign the page with encryption, so even checking the domain does not guarantee anything (since DNS can be bypassed/hacked).

Even if you don't want to encrypt you whole site, you should at least do that with login. I think Microsoft had that right with their passport architecture.

[grizzlyfish]

did hackers target bigfoot as well?

After a spate of high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked, Bigfoot became the next victim.

Weekly World News was able to screen-capture the fake update before it was deleted, which announced, ?nessie is gay?.

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/mutants/bigfoot-twitter-hacked/

[cbujung]

Talking about the Bellaire case of police shooting. Many people who live in Houston have created a new road map for the city because of the racism of this particular police department. Atleast this shows that when citizen cry they don't do it for hatred but because there is some wrong doing in the part of some law inforcers.