Two days ago, reports had emerged of a major phishing attack being worked through Twitter, with people who users are following sending personal messages (Direct Messages in Twitter) asking them to click on a link that immediately takes them to a new landing page, where they are again asked to sign in to Twitter.

By singing in for the second time, users ended up having their accounts stolen, which were then used to send more of such messages to other victims of the scam.

Today, Twitter has finally released an official warning about the attack.

Recently, UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband fell victim to the scam.

"We designed the Direct Message system so that you could only get DMs from accounts that you choose to follow--this cuts way down on spam and attacks. Our Trust and Safety team identifies and deletes spam accounts every day. Still, we recommend against indiscriminately following hundreds or thousands of accounts without having a look first", blogged Twitter's founder Biz Stone.