Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit

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Submission + - Aussie Student Responsible For Twitter Exploit

Submitted by bennyboy64 on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @01:00AM

bennyboy64 writes: An Australian teen has caused havoc on Twitter by discovering an exploit that hit thousands of users, including Barack Obama's press secretary, and resulted in the tweets of a former British PM's wife linking to hardcore porn, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Pearce Delphin, who is studying his last year at high school, said that he was surprised that "so many famous people got infected".

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