Twitter suffers attack by 'mouseover bug'

Washington, DC
Sep 21 2010

Twitter came under attack on Tuesday as hackers exploited a security flaw to wreak havoc on the micro-blogging service.

Computer security firms said thousands of users, or more, were affected by the bug, which appears to send out or "re-tweet" messages simply by rolling over an infected link with the computer mouse.

Those hit by the bug included Sarah Brown, the wife of the former British prime minister who has over one million followers on Twitter, and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. the rest