Less than a week after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account on the micro-blogging platform was hacked by a notorious hacking group called ‘Chuckle Squad’, the company announced that it has temporarily turned off the tweet-via-SMS functionality that is believed to have been exploited by the miscreants to send a series of disturbing tweets from Dorsey’s account last Friday.
We’re temporarily turning off the ability to Tweet via SMS, or text message, to protect people’s accounts.
In case you don’t know it already, Dorsey’s Twitter account was hacked last Friday after the phone number associated with his account was compromised “due to a security oversight by the mobile provider”. According to reports, the rogue tweets were sent via Cloudhopper, a service Twitter bought in 2010 to bolster its SMS service. The service works by posting to Twitter any text message sent to 404-04 from phone numbers linked to people’s Twitter accounts.
