Acai Berry spam attack on Twitter linked to Gawker hack
A deluge of spam advertising acai berry diets is leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of Twitter users this morning while being linked to a devastating hacker attack yesterday on Gawker Media that compromised account information belonging to hundreds of thousands of readers.
Among the Gawker sites affected are Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot. Anyone who has registered at those sites is being urged to change their password, and, if using the same login info elsewhere, change that as well.
A group going by the name "Gnosis" has claimed responsibility for compromising Gawker's servers, temporarily downing its sites on Sunday, and making available on peer-to-peer networks account information of some 200,000 readers and Gawker employees. (Update: Some media reports put the number of accounts at more than a million.)
