this is why hackers rule

so apparently somebody/people hacked into the official twitter site and hacked 33 "high profile accounts, including President Elect Barack Obama."

below are some of the hilarious hacked accounts. seriously, I love hackers (circa 1996) and this reminds me of what the OG hackers used to do:

and the best one . . .

does anyone know if someone took credit for it?

Free Macy's Gift Card!

perhaps recently some of us with myspace accounts have been experiencing some problems with our accounts being hacked. yeah, getting 6 different messages about how i can get a free coach bag when i thought someone was sending me an important message (probably a comment saying 'poop') sucked a lot, but i think it's all payed off to be able to bask in the interweb glory of these gems:



a hacker was able to breech myspace's security and access all the 'private accounts'. 44,000 pictures were downloaded and posted as a bit torrent, which some of the people at somethingawful have since downloaded and began sorting through. enjoy.