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Very personal data is sent to brand accounts by some users (to get support, etc), so I don't think this is really good news.
by mcdowell28 8y ago
Very personal data is sent to brand accounts by some users (to get support, etc), so I don't think this is really good news.
- QuinnyPig 8y agoIs it? I've sent support case numbers, and my email address, but never anything like credit card numbers, SSNs, etc. I'm not trying to downplay this, but I'm also not sending United Airlines my innermost secrets here...
- Insanity 8y agoA lot of people whom are not tech savvy are also not so privacy aware perhaps. I'm going out on a limb here and say the average hackernews user is not the average twitter user :)
- uptown 8y agoHence the existence of the now abandoned @NeedADebitCard user. http://twitter.com/NeedADebitCard http://twitter.com/NeedADebitCard
- sixhobbits 8y agoNot saying it's good, but a lot better than it originally sounded. The two domains pointing to the same IP is pretty rare. The place that got the sensitive information is used to dealing with it anyway (ie maybe AirFrance can read personal information that I sent to the post office - they will both hopefully have their own policies on dealing with such information). With these details I think any personal information I included in DMs is less likely to be used maliciously through this bug than e.g. from someone accessing my twitter account directly or through a malicious actor at the Brand Account I intended to share with.