Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Teenager Behind Twitter's Mouseover Mayhem

Once the dust settled from yesterday's Twitter mouseover security breach and users could finally return to their 140-character lives, the next question was who was responsible.

Well, a 17-year old from Australia claims he may have started the whole mess when he tweeted a piece of code that exposed the security flaw in Twitter's system. And while that tweet didn't necessarily cause the problem, hackers had a field day modifying it for more nefarious purposes.

So although he wasn't the shark that caused the beach to be shut down, he was the one who threw chum in the water.