On Wednesday, for a brief moment, hackers took over NASA's Kepler Twitter account and posted an image of the backside of a naked woman.

“Our account was temporarily compromised,” NASA tweeted. “We're back in business, ready to tell you about new planet discoveries.”

The scantily clad woman was not the only thing the hackers did. They also posted the name "r4die2oz," also tweeted the message "waiting for ya: <3" and included a link to a porn site. It was taken over by a password stealing bot.

“Passwords are not secure, no matter how complicated or clever we make them,” Gemalto's CTO of Data Protection Jason Hart said.

Hart blames the fact that users often use the same password for multiple accounts and gives easy access to hackers. “This makes full-on identity theft even easier once that password has been stolen.”


He acknowledged that Twitter offers “a number of excellent protection tools already,” Hart said they “only work if the user remembers to activate them.”

He also recommends that online companies offer two factor authorizations.

Source: SCMagazine