It looks like social networks are coming under attack more and more frequently from phishing attacks, as well as other security breach issues.  This time, its Twitter.

From the post on CNet:

“As part of Twitter’s ongoing security efforts, we reset passwords for a small number of accounts that we believe may have been compromised offsite,” the company said in a statement.

Some Twitter users apparently “used their Twitter username and password to sign up for an untrusted third-party application which then posted Tweets to their account,” a spokeswoman said.

This came in the wake of a number of users reporting that emails from Twitter asking to change their passwords kept coming in to their inboxes.  Personally, I received four emails myself.  I wasn’t sure what it was about, but changed my password anyways.  Its better to be safe than sorry.

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