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Update: Twitter blames celebrity hacks on 'individual'

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CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack yesterday. Regardless of what his last Tweet may have claimed.

"The issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend," a post on the Twitter blog explained. "These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the e-mail address associated with their Twitter account when they can't remember or get stuck. We considered this a very serious breach of security and immediately took the support tools offline. We'll put them back only when they're safe and secure."

The same hacker was responsible for compromising a number of Twitter's most popular accounts, including those belonging to pop singer Britney Spears, media outlet Fox News, and President-elect Barack Obama.


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