Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

No joking matter

"What The Onion has disclosed is that the attackers in this case used a sophisticated multilayered attack, using information gleaned in the first round to then launch a second that gathers more information, and so on, until at last they had penetrated the target: The Onion’s Twitter account, with a healthy five million followers.
This is by far the most detailed account of any of these attacks that I’ve read. And the more people who read it the better, because eventually the methods used will stop working."

Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD