How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
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How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
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#2An interesting point made was to avoid using custom domains for the login emails, since a DNS takeover would compromise your accounts tied to that email.
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#3Why is anyone still using GoDaddy?
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#4Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
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#5If the author is reading, did you end up getting back your @n username? If so, did you simply go to Twitter and explain to them the whole story?
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#6Wow, this is both interesting and terrifying. I have a two character Twitter handle that I use actively and it makes me worry that one day I might be targeted too using a similar method, although so far I've had no problems.
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#7If the author is reading, did you end up getting back your @n username? If so, did you simply go to Twitter and explain to them the whole story?
I don't think you realize how unresponsive and poor Twitter's support is. I was once locked out of my Twitter account via anything but Tweetdeck (due to two-factor authentication suddenly breaking and not sending SMS') for four weeks before I wound up accidentally finding a PC that I hadn't signed out of previously and was able to disable. I logged a ticket on the first day it happened and never even received a response.
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#8Why is anyone still using GoDaddy?
and Network Solutions.
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#9I found it interesting how open the attacker was about how they did it.
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#10Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
Have just been talking with him. He first asked Twitter for it back on the 20th of Jan. 8 days ago.