FOX News: Your Twitter account was compromised, company warns way too many

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Your Twitter account was compromised, company warns way too many Nov 8th 2012, 18:00 An unknown number of Twitter accounts have been "compromised," the microblogging service revealed Thursday morning. And in its efforts to inform users, Twitter has turned a small problem into a doozy. "We unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those that we believed to have been compromised," the company admitted on a corporate blog. "We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused." In other words, your account may have been hacked, or it may not have -- but in either case, you should probably reset your Twitter password. Twitter did not immediately respond to FoxNews.com questions.   But the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report blog reported that the accounts of a number of prominent China activists, journalists, and even a political cartoonist received warnings that their accounts had been compromised. "When we believe an account may have been compromised, we reset the password and send an email letting the account owner know this has happened," Twitter explained on its site. That said, many U.S. users reported that they had received the notification as well, and since Twitter acknowledged that it had overbroadcast the alert, the scope of the problem and causes for it remain unclear.

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