Social networking site Twitter on Thursday settled Federal Trade Commission charges that “serious lapses” in data security put its users at risk.

The FTC in its administrative complaint (pdf) said these security lapses allowed hackers to obtain administrative control of Twitter and send out phony tweets from users including then-President-elect Barack Obama and Fox News. The hackers were also able to gain access to nonpublic user information.

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