I'm more interested in how kids in their early 20's got through to Twitter's API and was able to hack all these accounts. Article claims these guys socially engineered Twitter employees which makes me believe Twitter's platform was never secure to begin with if it was that easy.
Appearently they were able to get some Twitter employees to give them access to internal twitter systems. I would say this should be very embarrassing on the part of Twitter. It appears that twitter is investing far too much time in 'social justice' and far too little time in their security.
Some have suggested these people have a career in pen-testing ahead of them, however they apparently did an especially poor job in covering their tracks. It is probably a better bet that twitter has especially poor internal security. One might even suggest that twitter has 'MtGox level' security.
