An Australian of 17 years admitted Wednesday it had caused the previous day without wanting chaos on the site microblogs Twitter, disturbing accounts of thousands of people, including that of the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Delphin Pearce, aka @ zzap on Twitter, has acknowledged having uncovered a security breach in which hackers were swallowed, causing chaos for five hours Tuesday.
Delphin Pearce, who lives in Melbourne with his parents, has entered a Javascript code as normal text in a message that triggered the opening web pages with a simple mouse over the text. But his idea was taken over by hackers, who used the code to redirect users to pornographic sites or create tweets «to»retorted that every time they were read.
«I did this just to see if it could be done ... see if the javascript code could be used in a tweet,» said the young man told AFP via email. «When I posted my tweet, I never imagined that it would take off like that. I really had not thought there,» he added.
Thousands of accounts affected
Thousands of accounts have been affected, including Sarah Brown, wife of former British Prime Minister, whose messages are followed by more than 1.1 million people. For its part, the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, whose flow is followed by 97,000 people, has sent a message saying «My Twitter unlocks. I call the guys in the art.» Twitter has apologized Tuesday to its millions of users. One of the team responsible for security of the site microblogs, Bob Lord, has provided no data on personal accounts had been compromised on that occasion.
Some users have entered a Javascript code as normal text in a message, triggering the opening pages, had explained the security manager. At first emerged pop-ups (pop-ups), then other users went further by adding a code that people redisseminated messages without realizing it.
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