Twitter said that it was hacked again on last friday (02 Feb 2013) and hackers gained access to 250,000 accounts details, Twitter says, change your password.
Twitter's director of information security, writes in a blog post."this week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to twitter user data".
According to Bob Lord, Twitter is actively co-operating with law enforcement in an attempt to prevent further damage caused bu these attackers.
Lord, did not explain how the hacker got in and accessed the data, but said that he did not believe twitter was the only company targeted
As a precautionary security measure, twiiter has reset passwords and revoked session tokens of these accounts and affected accounts will have recently recieved an email regarding the issue and ask to change a new password.

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