San Francisco: Anonymous hackers hit Twitter this week and as many as 250,000 accounts for user passwords and other information can be accessed, micro blog disclosed late Friday.Twitter said in a blog post that the passwords were encrypted and that it had already reset them as a "precautionary measure," and that it was in the process of notifying affected users.
Blog Post recently against the New York Times and Wall Street Journal revelations of large-scale cyber attacks have been described, but unlike the two news organizations, Twitter or original method of attack has not provided a description.
He said: "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we believe that this was not an isolated incident," Twitter said. "The attackers were very complex, and we believe other companies and organizations recently have been attacked as well.
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