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Others in the Twitter thread have claimed to use the same password without any effect. Would like to see some replication before jumping to too many conclusions

• gpm 6y ago
  It looks like this has been blowing up on twitter for 20 hours. WeChat is perfectly capable of turning of having turned off this feature by now, and letting people think she was wrong. Or even of then having people on their payroll pretend it never worked like this to make sure people test after they've changed the rules.
  • oefrha 6y ago
    A few k stars on Twitter is hardly blowing up. More plausible explanation: journalist was using WeChat in “creative” ways looking for a story (even admitted to “probing”, though didn’t mention anything else she probed), got account closed after a while, attributed it to the last action, although that was not actually the cause (could be a combination of various activities).
  • panpanna 6y ago
    This could also have been a manual job :) Someone is probably watching closely what this reporter is doing.
    • glxxyz 6y ago
      I'm sure her WeChat contacts are now in for some close scrutiny as well. I hope they were aware what she was doing, and none of them have anything to hide from the Government.
  • vmception 6y ago
    Or her account was flagged for any number of reasons when a user changes a password on any service. I've seen worse user experiences. But yeah lets just go with the passwords are in plaintext and she's a journalist beijing doesn't like as the only possible outcome. Thats the explanation I'm going to go with when Facebook security reviews blindside my new accounts and close it unilaterally.