Not a week goes by after my rant about online app security and Twitter gets hacked. Just days after Twitter users were tricked into divulging their passwords to a fake Twitter site, the company's developer tools were breached. Take a second to think about how bad this could have been. Or how bad it could still get.
Another case this week: Journalspace no longer exists. The company is gone forever, along with thousands of blogs. The company hinted that it might have been due to sabotage by a former employee. Obviously, it also took a healthy dose of complacency on the part of the company, but it happened.
Now, nobody is going to lose a whole lot of sleep if Twitter evaporates in a puff of smoke. (Well, most people won't). But losing a 6 year old blog can be pretty painful, especially if the author was using its SEO mojo to drive a consulting business.
What has me really freaked out is what would happen if it wasn't Twitter that got hacked, but Mint or Wesabe.
The interconnection of web apps is a great, but frightening trend. Make sure you protect yourself - and your data. This is an area of tech that is racing ahead, perhaps a little too quickly.
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