Twitter files leaked

The leaked documents included a forecast of Twitter’s projected annual revenues in 2013. It was one of more than 300 internal Twitter documents that TechCrunch, the online news site said it had been sent by an anonymous hacker. The documents were taken from an account that a Twitter employee held at Google Apps, an online service that replicates many of the features of standard PC software but relies on users storing their data on Google’s own servers. Google and Twitter, both of which rely heavily on internet users’ confidence in the security of web services such as this, were quick to deny that the leak had exposed any deeper flaws in the use of online applications, known as “cloud computing.

However, the embarrassing leak from Silicon Valley’s most closely watched start-up has highlighted a common security flaw that has become a concern to other companies whose employees submit confidential corporate information to “cloud” services. Google defended the security of its applications but also took the opportunity to encourage regular users to revisit its site and update their settings to make them more secure. The growing use of online applications has played into the hands of criminals seeking sensitive information, who increasingly use password recovery tools to hack into personal online services accounts.

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