Britney Spears has died, at least according to her Twitpic account on Sunday. This turned out to be false along with information being sent out from Ellen DeGeneres TwitPic account, because someone had broke into the two accounts and began sending out false information from them.

Twitpic is a service that allows Twitter uses to share photos. While TwitPic isn’t owned by Twitter, it is a widely used service but apparently has flaws of its own.

Twitpic informed users Sunday to disregard false messages from Spears’ account and said that they were implementing a fix to the vulnerability immediately. We tried reaching them and none of our emails were returned.

We are all vulnerable this day and age, especially when you use third-party services. Once the information is no longer stored on your computer and is  in the cloud, the security is completely out of your hands and opens your information up to be exploited and hacked. This will probably never change. Long as your information is connected to the web, it will be vulnerable.

Twitpic is currently looking to hire a Software/Systems Engineer according to the Twitpic blog. Perhaps they should also be looking for a software engineer with a great security background as well?

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