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Twitter's TweetDeck Returns After Security Issue Derailment Popular social-media tool gets hit by hackers sending strange messages.

By Jason Fell •

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Hackers had their way with Twitter's TweetDeck tool today.

This morning, a number of users reported seeing pop-up alerts with all types of strange messages. In some instances, those messages were automatically tweeted to followers.

Some of the accounts that were affected include @NYTimesBusiness, @ScienceNews and @SFGate, among others.

Related: 5 Steps to Keeping Your Private Communications Secure

Twitter temporarily shut down TweetDeck as it worked to patch the vulnerability. The attack apparently targeted XSS (cross-site scripting) which is a common security vulnerablity for web apps.


TweetDeck services have since been brought back online.
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Jason Fell

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Jason Fell is the VP of Native Content, managing the Entrepreneur Partner Studio, which creates dynamic and compelling content for our partners. He previously served as Entrepreneur.com's managing editor and as the technology editor prior to that.

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