Cybersecurity
Twitter Hack Started With ‘Rainbow Tweets,’ Australian Says
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A person in Australia, who claims to be the center of an incident that impaired service on Twitter Inc.’s website for thousands of users, said he had no malicious intent when he disclosed a security weakness to others.
A Twitter user identifying himself as Pearce Delphin, a 17-year-old high school student in Melbourne, said in an e-mail interview that he saw the potential for trouble in the short messages of another user in Japan.