黑客瘋狂入侵 Twitter怒鎖部分賬號

Twitter has locked some accounts following reports that log-in details for millions of users were on sale.

根據報道，在數百萬用戶的賬戶密碼被叫賣後，Twitter現在已經鎖定了部分帳號。

In a blogpost, Twitter said it was confident that the data had not come from a hack attack on its servers. But after scrutinising the list, it had locked some accounts and users would need to reset their passwords.

在一篇博文中，Twitter方面表示，它堅信數據並非來源於黑客對其服務器的攻擊。但在仔細審查了這份名單後，Twitter鎖定了部分帳號，而相應用戶登錄前需重置其密碼。

"The purported Twitter names and passwords may have been amassed from combining information from other recent breaches, malware on victim machines that are stealing passwords for all sites, or a combination of both," wrote Michael Coates, chief security officer at Twitter, in the blogpost.

Twitter的首席安全官邁克爾·柯蒂斯在一篇博文中寫道：“所謂的Twitter賬戶和密碼，可能來源於最近其他的泄漏事件，也可能是受害者機器上正在竊取所有網站密碼的惡意軟件，或是兩者的結合。”

He did not say how many of the supposedly stolen log-ins were legitimate or how many accounts had been locked.

但他並未透露被盜的賬戶中能合法登陸的數量，或者說已被鎖定的賬戶的數量。

Some security experts have expressed doubt about whether all the information in the list of 32 million log-in names is genuine.

一些安全專家對名單中3200萬用戶信息的真實性表示懷疑。

Per Thorsheim, who advises companies about security and safe log-in procedures, said he was "sceptical" about the data but added that he had not had chance to look through it himself.

從事公司安全諮詢服務、登錄程序安全的Per Thorsheim表示，他對泄漏的數據十分懷疑，但他尚未瀏覽這些數據。

Troy Hunt, who maintains an online repository of breach data, told technology news site Ars Technica that he too had his doubts about the list.

從事維護外泄數據存儲庫的工作者特洛伊·洪接受科技新聞網站Ars Technica記者採訪時表示，他強烈懷疑這份名單的來源及真實性。