The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has shut the book on its legal action against Twitter , stanch fromtwo 2009 hacking incidentswhere gamy - visibility chirrup users — include President Barack Obama — lost control of their accounts .
The FTC said that Twitter was guilty of “ serious lapses in the company ’s data security , ” after hacker double break into Twitter administrative consoles by figuring out the password of Twitter staffers in other 2009 . They then used that access to study private messages and get off out fake Twitter messages using a act of high - visibility Twitter accounts , including Obama ’s and those of Britney Spears and Fox News .
chirrup misdirect consumers by saying that it was taking appropriate security measures to protect their privacy , the FTC tell .
In June 2010,Twitter and the FTC strive a probationary liquidation in the affair , and that wasfinalized by the FTC on Friday . The FTC ’s five commissioners voted unanimously to accept the closure .
Twitter now face fines if it misleads consumers about its security and concealment protections , and it must set up a “ comprehensive information security political program , which will be measure by an independent auditor every other twelvemonth for 10 years , ” the FTC said .
In ablog postal service last June , Twitter said that it had already implemented many of the security practices suggested by the FTC .
perceiver say that Twitter surety has ameliorate since the 2009 onrush , but there are still some problems . Last week worker Ashton Kutcher had hisTwitter report briefly taken over , apparently after he exposed his log - in credentials over an unsecured wireless web at the TED conference . That type of tone-beginning could be get rid of if Twitter coerce substance abuser to connect over a secure Web connectedness .
