The hacker who broke Twitter's rather feeble security last month was able to find and copy confidential documents because they were shared between Twitter employees using Google's web apps.

A hacker calling himself Croll broke into a Twitter worker's email account and from there found his way into the worker's Google Apps account, where Twitter stores spreadsheets and documents containing business plans and financial details, admitted Twitter founder Biz Stone earlier this week.

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