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My Twitter account -- @yes -- just got hacked. Can anyone help?

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Re: My Twitter account -- @yes -- just got hacked. Can anyone help?

#11

You made it to HN front page so help from twitter is probably on the way. On the same topic: How do these accounts (including email) get hacked? Does brute force work even with max number of failed logins or what?

please do not encourage doing "instead of waiting for the reply from Twitter support I will post on HN too" posts. this is just noise, nothing interesting.

Re: My Twitter account -- @yes -- just got hacked. Can anyone help?

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t1's dead post: What was the password (in terms of what it contained)? Was the password more like 'baseball' or 'B@s3B41122984'? It's possible that someone has the copyright or convinced support they were you if the password is indeed complex. You can contact twitter support. https://twitter.com/crystal -----

Of course, we don't know if zaru is actually the rightful owner of the account. He could be trying to convince us (and Twitter support) in an attempt to take over the account...

I think and hope that twitter has a history of changes in the account. So that they can find the takeover.

Re: My Twitter account -- @yes -- just got hacked. Can anyone help?

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post #9
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

t1's dead post: What was the password (in terms of what it contained)? Was the password more like 'baseball' or 'B@s3B41122984'? It's possible that someone has the copyright or convinced support they were you if the password is indeed complex. You can contact twitter support. https://twitter.com/crystal -----

Of course, we don't know if zaru is actually the rightful owner of the account. He could be trying to convince us (and Twitter support) in an attempt to take over the account...

Understandable remark cynix but I am definitely @yes. You can ask any of my friends and followers. I do believe they keep the history of your user account, my biggest concern is recovering my account now that the hacker removed all my person info from it.

Re: My Twitter account -- @yes -- just got hacked. Can anyone help?

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My twitter account got hacked, but i did not comlain on HN. I really should have. Even though i got through to support (i have a friend who worka at twitter who referred me), they claimed that my email address was not the one associated with the twitter account. Well guess what, when you msg or add me to your feed, those notificationa come straight to my inbox. The only thing that doesn't reach my email account (standard gmail) is a password reset link . So annoying. I've been bouncing back with support for weeks.

Re: My Twitter account -- @yes -- just got hacked. Can anyone help?

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post #9
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

t1's dead post: What was the password (in terms of what it contained)? Was the password more like 'baseball' or 'B@s3B41122984'? It's possible that someone has the copyright or convinced support they were you if the password is indeed complex. You can contact twitter support. https://twitter.com/crystal -----

Of course, we don't know if zaru is actually the rightful owner of the account. He could be trying to convince us (and Twitter support) in an attempt to take over the account...

Probably these dudes: http://www.yesworld.com/
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