Recently Twitter.com was hacked and 310 confidential documents were taken from their Google Apps account.  These documents consisted of executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial projections to the meal preferences, calendars and phone logs of various Twitter employees.   These documents were delivered to TechCrunch(.com) via email by someone who refers to themselves as “hacker Croll”.

Any individual or company with a shred of ethics would contact authorities and keep this information private.  TechCrunch on the other hand would rather use this information to get more links to their website.  So Mike Arrington  over at TechCrunch thinks leaking confidential documents is a great way to do this.  I for one think this is very unethical and don’t agree with their stance that this is what is considered news.

Twitter has responded to this incident with their own post.

What do you think?

Author: Christopher