A French hacker broke into the email accounts of Twitter executives and employees, and now the cyber snoop is leaking business and personal info about company leaders to TechCrunch, an American blog, and Korben, a French blog. The hacker reportedly guessed passwords and gained access to several Gmail accounts, as well as accounts with Google Docs, PayPal, and other services. TechCrunch received a compressed zip file of 310 confidential documents,
including a complete Twitter employee list and salary information; food preferences of Twitter employees; confidential contracts with companies such as Nokia, Samsung, Dell, AOL, Microsoft, and others; a contact list of notable Web and entertainment personalities; meeting reports; [and] applicant resumes [PC World].
One document leaked to TechCrunch by the hacker, who goes by the name Hacker Croll, was a chart of business projections for the coming year. The company appears to be doing well: Twitter expected their first revenue ...
