Twitter Hack that gave admin access. 17 Year old hacker charged. And how it happened.

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[–]KaiEdwardBannon 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nowadays teenagers that can hack Twitter and Nintendo are being smarter than 40 year old game developers.

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What an epic hack for this kid to have pulled off. I'm jelly of his skills but not his charges :)