Any idea where these came from? Was Twitter actually hacked somehow (and if so, ...

		lilyball on May 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 55,000 Twitter passwords leaked Any idea where these came from? Was Twitter actually hacked somehow (and if so, why only 55k)? Or was 3rd-party software that collected Twitter credentials hacked? Can 3rd-party software even collect credentials at all or is OAuth the only authentication flow that works today?

could be an old list from a 3rd party in the days before Oauth