Confidential Twitter Documents Uncovered after Hacker Email Break-In

A hacker was able to break into a Twitter employee's email account and uncover confidential Twitter documents.

The recent breach of a Twitter employee's email account only adds to Twitters long list of security issues. Time and time again security researches have reemphasized that Twitter needs to restructure their over-all security. This recent even only underscores what people are already finding out about social networks, information, whether personal or confidential, is easily spread throughout these communities.

Some of the information in the newest hacking incident has uncovered documents being posted of Twitter's financial information including current projections of what is to come of their billions of dollars. Hackers have not only forwarded financial documents, but hundreds of pages of other internal Twitter documents. Some security researchers during past security issues that Twitter has faced, believed at one time, that the hackers simply post screen shots of the Twitter admin panel just to prove that they gained access to Twitter. At this point, there is no doubt that hackers are able to get access to Twitter's internals.

The actions that we posted about just recently revealed an effort by Twitter that suspends accounts belonging to users with infected computers. Even though this is "one" step Twitter was taking to make their service "more secure," it seems to be an unfair action.

Twitter's security issues are so serious it is almost like a "Twittergate" scenario, confidential documents that were never meant to be exposed, are being uncovered and will be debated over for some time. Not to mention, the financial data that was revealed, explains that Twitter expected to reach revenue of $140 million by the end of year 2010 and then $1.54 billion in year 2013. In addition, mentions of a reality TV show and wine cellar is also included in the documents.

Twitter, in no way, would disclose such financial data, let alone post it online. Some may have pointed fingers at a bug in Google Apps was responsible for the attack but later denied. It seems the game of pointing fingers is on half-time while researchers continue to sound like a broken record steadily repeating, "Twitter needs to fix their security issues."

Will Twitter take action against journalists that post this type of information? Should they take action? Should Twitter simply improve their security once and for-all so this type of incident wont happen again?