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Just in case you don’t think that using the same, easy to guess password for all of your online accounts won’t come back to haunt you, think again.

Last week, the website TechCrunch.com, reported that a Twitter account containing confidential Twitter documents had been hacked into, and the documents had been published online. Now, the hacker himself, known as Hacker Croll, has revealed to Tech Crunch that he used “Hotmail’s inactive account feature.” to accomplish the hack.

According to Hacker Croll, he was able to access the Twitter account of an employee of Twitter by researching the employee online in order to gain information that would help him to guess their Gmail account password. This helped the hacker to ascertain that the Twitter account was also associated with a Hotmail account, which was currently inactive, but he was able to reset the account and specify a password of his own.

ComputerWorld.Com reports that Twitter is now threatening legal action against some of the sites, including TechCrunch, that have published the stolen documents, but that legal experts were not sure if this would actually succeed.

With so much personal information being stored online nowadays, it only makes sense to take extra security measures when it comes to passwords. So if your password for everything is something that is easy to guess, i.e. your birthday, middle name, or child’s name, you owe it to yourself to consider changing it to something more secure.

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