Did you read the most recent Tweet from Twitter? Your user information may have been stolen!

Twitter announced in a blog post that a recent, "extremely sophisticated" hack may have exposed around 250,000 users' email addresses and other information. As reported in www.nbcnews.com.

Data stolen included user names, emails, session tokens (used to maintain a logged-in state), and passwords, although the latter were "salted" and encrypted, meaning they are likely unable to be read by the hackers. Consequently, little damage appears possible other than publishing the attachment of accounts to certain email addresses.

Affected users have had their passwords reset and their Twitter sessions terminated, and should receive an email soon informing them of the fact. Twitter also advocated disabling Java in browsers as an additional security step, following the recent discovery of a separate security flaw in the web app platform.

This is the third high-profile hack to have surfaced in the last week: Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported that their systems had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers.

Do you think these hacking are related? So far not enough information is available for experts to determine any relation. Twitter indicated that it is gathering information and helping government and law enforcement agencies in order to track down the culprits. Do you think an online theft class would benefit hackers?