Somehow we -consumers and deciders- are totally horny of being part of the bigbuzz communities we simply forgot about security.

So this happened:
A hacker gained access to several Twitter accounts by brut force – among them Barack Obamas and Britney Spears’. Twitter was already known for having security isuues do to unencrypted password transmission. Well, here’s a video that explains what he did:

Official Twitter feeds belonging to Barack Obama’s campaign, Fox News and Britney Spears were hijacked to send out fake messages on Monday, two days after a password-stealing phishing attack targeted the microblogging service.

“A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised this morning, and fake/spam updates were sent on their behalf,” the company acknowledged on its website Monday. “We have identified the cause and blocked it. We are working to restore compromised accounts.”

Read on at wired.com