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or you have a keylogger on your computer, or were phished yourself
Not a chance. Seriously, I'm if anything utterly paranoid about this sort of thing and this box is as secure as it ever was.
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You are way out of line.
Not really. If you weren’t a prolific HN commenter this would be the top comment here. Right now you’re making an extraordinary claim with zero evidence. Pointing this out isn’t “out of line”. E: As it turns out, not only was I not out of line, I was also entirely correct. You wrote this tweet Jacques, you just forgot. It’s not unusual at your age. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240589 It’s time for you to ap…
Asserting that an elaborate full-scale Twitter hack is more probable than a single Twitter account (not protected by 2FA, from other comments), or a single machine hack, etc. is silly no matter how prolific of a HN user you are.
Statements like "There is no way that my account password was compromised without a much more elaborate hack of Twitter," are... questionable.
I'm not here to bash OP -- they may have been hacked or maybe Twitter was hacked, or something. But if this was me, or any non-prolific HN user, I'd have already been told to pound sand multiple times at this type of outrageous story with no evidence other than "my machines are secure".
I signed up for Twitter last week, and within minutes my status changed to "Your account is locked", because my account broke the Twitter Rules. I am still trying to figure it out.
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> I don’t know whether the author of the post actually wrote the tweet in question It's in the title. > or if his account was compromised despite him saying it wasn’t… I'm not sure, it could be, it could be a hack of Twitter as well. At this point I don't want to rule anything out because the only thing I know for sure is that I did not write that tweet.
>> I don’t know whether the author of the post actually wrote the tweet in question > It's in the title. Your claim that you didn't is in the title, sure. It doesn't sound like GP is convinced one way or another though.
I don't write tweets like that, don't drink, don't get high (as another commenter suggested) and stand by my words. This is not something trivial to me, someone is apparently able to impersonate me on a platform with massive reach and that means that if this doesn't get resolved in a serious manner that Twitter is utterly dead to me. And that probably was the goal of whoever did this so I guess they can congratulate themselves on a job well done but I have to take this serious. Reputation is a pretty fragile thing, I'm very outspoken but I am very careful about what I write and if Twitter is not going to be serious about this then they have lost my interest instantly because it means that I can no longer trust what I read there and others won't be able to trust what I - apparently - write there.
So for me there is quite a bit at stake here.
It's twitter.
A cesspit, now run by raggety old billionaire on an ego trip.
Don't like it. Leave and find somewhere better!
I don't understand the tweet. "@A @B @C Die on the job..." Is that an incomplete news report that people have died? Is it some kind of ridiculous imperative statement? The ellipsis seems to indicate the former. Either way it just seems like some garbage spam to be ignored.
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> I'm confused - was OP's account compromised, or not? I do not know. The tweet certainly looks like it was made by my account, but definitely not from this computer and definitely not using my password. I'm pretty precise about stuff like that and Twitter would be the least of my problems if my passwords were hacked. For now I am assuming either someone social engineered Twitter to change my password or a compromise…
You only mention password, do you also have a non-sms based 2FA configured?
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I think 2FA is to guard against someone gaming their "lost my password" process as much as against someone brute-forcing your pw.
Yes, but that would actually be less secure because my phone number is quite public and I'd be a SIM swap attack away from someone being able to compromise this account in a way that I would not be able to easily recover from (and to lose my long time phone number in the process).
Regardless that still wouldn't protect you against somebody social engineering their support team. The account security page at https://twitter.com/settings/security has an "Additional password protection" but that seems to inhibit automated password reset requests, not support-related ones.
With the greatest respect. Who cares? It's twitter. A cesspit, now run by raggety old billionaire on an ego trip. Don't like it. Leave and find somewhere better!
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