It was back in August 2011 when I first posted about having my twitter account hacked. In the last week both my personal and Liverpool Acoustic twitter accounts have been inundated with personal messages from accounts that have been hacked.
Most of the time the account owner isn’t aware that they’ve been hacked, and most of the time they’re totally baffled as to how they got hacked in the first place.
Strictly speaking their twitter accounts were not ‘hacked’ because nobody was forced to guess their password. The real term is ‘phishing’ which involves the twitter account owner being tricked into giving their username and password to someone else.