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Daniel Stenberg's (badger) Twitter account seems to have been compromised
- Jamie9912 6y agoHe posted a blog post about it here https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/16/i-lost-my-twitter-account/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/16/i-lost-my-twitter-acc...
- bagder 6y agocan I just mention that my twitter handle is 'bagder' - as in a dyslexic animal! =)
- ratsmack 6y agoCare to elaborate on how it might have been compromised?
- bagder 6y agoI rather refrain from speculating as I truly have no idea! As I describe in my blog post, I just got an email saying "someone" had logged into my account from a new device and then I was kicked out (as that user then changed password and email presumably).
- flurdy 6y agoYou still have access to your phone number? So not been sim-swapped hacked? I guess we will find out (I hope) how it happened. But surely there should be some automatic red flags with Twitter if an account changes name, email and starts spamming... Especially if verified!
- bagder 6y agoWhile I am disconnected from twitter, you can always reach me at: Mastodon: @bagder@mastodon.social Keybase: https://keybase.io/bagder https://keybase.io/bagder IRC: #curl on freenode Email: daniel@haxx.se website: https://daniel.haxx.se/ https://daniel.haxx.se/
- RobIII 6y agoDo you have / did you have 2FA enabled? And, if not, why not?
- sangeeth96 6y agoI doubt it. If it is enabled, I don't see how the hacker could've circumvented it. I wonder if @bagder uses 1Password or something similar for 2FAs. Would love to know once this gets resolved.
- sangeeth96 6y agoI've seen (and reported) a lot of such verified accounts that pose as Elon Musk. I don't get one thing—why can't Twitter set up a system that alerts to such changes to verified accounts? Can't they do a match on the name/profile image that could alert them of a possible hack? I'm stumped as to why they don't have such a system in place already considering not everyone has a verified account.
- bagder 6y agoAccount restored!