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Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the sites' numerous users in order to infect their computers with malware. This unwanted software is designed to do a number of terrible things ranging from identity theft to turning computer into remote-controllable "zombie" machines.

The popular social networking site Twitter has been hit by a denial of service attack, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. In an e-mail to CNN.com, Stone said this morning's attack is not related to a recent incident in which a hacker stole internal documents from the site. Twitter's site went down around 9:30 a.m. ET.

The microblogging service fears the social network could put it out of business.

Twitter seeks legal advice after hundreds of documents were hacked and a number of blogs publish some of the stolen material.

A French hacker posts 13 screenshots of a Twitter product manager's admin interface to prove the claim.