"TweetDeck is currently down while we look into an issue. Apologies for the inconvenience." - @TweetDeckAccording to TechCrunch, Twitter has taken down its Tweetdeck application after a vunerability was found that allowed access to hundreds of other users accounts. The bug was flagged up by Geoff Evanson [tweet], describing the issue:
"A bug has given me access to hundreds of twitter and facebooks account through tweetdeck. I didn't do anything special to make this happen. I just logged in one day, the account was was slower than normal, and I could post from many more accounts."
Update
Tweetdeck is working again
"As soon as we learned about the issue today, we took TweetDeck down to diagnose the situation. We discovered a bug that caused a very small number of TweetDeck users to have access to other TweetDeck users' accounts. (The accounts that could be accessed were random; it was not possible to select specific accounts and access them.)
No one's password was compromised, and we aren't aware of any instances where this access was used maliciously. As a precaution, we removed account credentials associated with affected TweetDeck users; they will need to log in to authorize the TweetDeck application to access their accounts."
No one's password was compromised, and we aren't aware of any instances where this access was used maliciously. As a precaution, we removed account credentials associated with affected TweetDeck users; they will need to log in to authorize the TweetDeck application to access their accounts."
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