That both Tesla's Twitter account and the website were hacked simultaneously, though, points to an issue beyond a one-off Twitter security failing.
Gen. Gregg A. Sturdevant, to retire because of their culpability in the security failing.
The revelation is the third security failing discovered since the phone and its iOS 7 software were released last week.
The White House has been held by a string of do-nothing presidents, Republican and Democrat, incapable, apparently, of recognizing the real threats to our national security: a failing education system and racial and economic divides that are tearing us apart faster and faster each day.
Alan Woodward, a professor at the University of Surrey, said that the greatest risk to users is the drive's security "failing silently".
"It seems that the way this is proceeding, any hint that this was an act of terror will not be allowed, and that to me is preposterous," said Neal M. Sher, one of the lawyers representing victims and their families in a lawsuit accusing Pentagon and federal officials of knowing Major Hasan was a security threat and failing to act before the attack.
Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives oversight and government reform subcommittee on national security, called the incident "totally unacceptable" and said it was just one of a string of security failings on the secret service's watch.
Last year, for instance, a family in Houston, Texas found that a hacker had exploited security failings in its hi-tech baby monitor, made by the Chinese firm Foscam, to log in and begin verbally abusing the family's two-year-old, telling her she was a "little slut".
A Royal Navy submariner who blew the whistle on a catalogue of alleged security failings around the Trident nuclear programme has said he will hand himself in to police.
Instead, the report detailed a long list of security failings in and around H-Block 6, the section of the Maze that housed prisoners from the INLA and the LVF.
