Twitter says hackers compromise 250K accounts

UPDATED 23:02 PM EST, February 1, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the latest online attack, Twitter said Friday that hackers may have gained access to information on a quarter of a million of its more than 200 million active users.

The social media giant said in a blog posting that earlier this week it detected attempts to gain access to its user data. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.

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