TweetDeck Taken Offline Temporarily After Hacker Havoc
wtf?! pic.twitter.com/B18fUIat2j — Kevin Smith (@OfficialKLS) June 11, 2014 TweetDeck was taken offline today after hackers exploited a vulnerability to remotely execute JavaScript code and push pop-up messages to users of its Chrome version. Some examples of the pop-ups — “Yo!” and “Please close now TweetDeck, it is not safe.” Several major publishers’ accounts […]
wtf?! pic.twitter.com/B18fUIat2j
— Kevin Smith (@OfficialKLS) June 11, 2014
TweetDeck was taken offline today after hackers exploited a vulnerability to remotely execute JavaScript code and push pop-up messages to users of its Chrome version. Some examples of the pop-ups — “Yo!” and “Please close now TweetDeck, it is not safe.” Several major publishers’ accounts also retweeted the invasive script, including @Salon, @NYTimesbusiness and @ScienceNews.
Initially TweetDeck announced that the issue could be fixed by signing off and back onto TweetDeck, but less than 30 minutes later they took the service off line:
We’ve temporarily taken TweetDeck services down to assess today’s earlier security issue. We’ll update when services are back up.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
Postscript: After about an hour offline, TweetDeck service was restored.
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