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Ask HN: Why would anyone want to hijack my HN account?
Got a bunch of 'password reset' emails yesterday for this very account, I'm assuming they're malicious. What would anyone stand to gain any HN acct let alone my worthless acct?
- 1996 7y agoCould simply be someone with the same name. Not many people in the US have my name but someone in another country does, and I see when they try to reset their iphone using my name for the apple account. They have the gmail address. We should trade accounts!
- throw03172019 7y agoThey want your 1 karma! Usually this happens when someone thinks that is their username and then they think the email is not being delivered so they keep trying.