Quote Originally Posted by VicE$DoS$ View Post
Sorry! I know this is an older thread.

I just wanted to ask if anyone sees any benefit in stealing twitter account details? What can be gained?

Other than the sheer embarrasment and perhaps a small probably negligable bit of reputation damage should it be a 'corporate twitter'

Thanks!
Well for most folks, it can give you access to quite a bit. See, the avarage joe uses the same username/password on every account they have, or its very similar. So by taking control of something unvaluable like twitter, you could indirectly gain access to their bank as well. Of course this would have to be more of a personalized attack, where you would have to know or guess where they have other accounts at.