Meet the guy who just broke TweetDeck

TweetDeck was hacked on Wednesday by a worm that hijacked people's accounts. But it's all because an Austrian boy was playing with hearts. ♥

TweetDeck, a popular Twitter app for desktops, has been hacked -- because a 19-year-old computer geek in Austria wanted to use cute, little hearts.

On Wednesday, something like an Internet worm quickly spread across the Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) social media network. It came from a tweet of a "♥" symbol that was loaded with a string of code -- one that hijacked people's TweetDeck software.

Like a typical worm, this code told affected TweetDeck accounts to share the message, thus disseminating it everywhere.
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An Austrian teenager named Florian (he prefers to go by Firo) says he started it all. Firo, who declined to share his last name, citing privacy concerns, said he figured out Wednesday morning that "&hearts" makes a "♥" symbol in the coding language HTML.
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