Twitter Hacked: 250,000 Accounts at Risk

This afternoon, I got an e-mail from Twitter saying it had reason to believe my account had been compromised, and was therefore making me change my password. After I verified that the e-mail was indeed from Twitter -- rather than a phisher trying to steal my info -- I did as it instructed. And then, when I was back on the service, I saw other people saying that they'd received the same e-mail I had. Lots of them. Turns out that there are a quarter-million of us. Twitter's director of information...