RTE “The company (Twitter) said they could not comment specifically on whether Irish accounts were affected by the hacking incident” So RTE asked were Irish accounts involved? What a silly question. Yes they were. Mine too. Twitter doesn’t have a database for Ireland.
RTE “Both newspapers (The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal) reported this week that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important.” The hackers would use Google to search this coverage, except Google is blocked in China.
http://m.rte.ie/news/touch/2013/0202/365849-twitter-says-a-quarter-of-a-milli…