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Hi, I'm Mat Honan (the guy who was hacked). I've been in touch with the person who hacked my account. He says it wasn't brute force, or guessed. I'll publish mo

Hi, I'm Mat Honan (the guy who was hacked). I've been in touch with the person who hacked my account. He says it wasn't brute force, or guessed. I'll publish more when I know more. To be clear, the password was unique. I use 1password as a password manager and even double checked to make sure that I wasn't using it anywhere else.

tricolon 14y ago
Have you considered (temporarily) disabling comments on your blog? Many of them are quite hostile, and might as well be deleted.
- emptyage 14y ago
  They're rabid. But I think it's kind of an interesting side note at this point.
  - ninguem2 14y ago
    What have you done to elicit so much hate (from the hacker and the commenters)?
    - emptyage 14y ago
      I genuinely don't know. The hacker said it wasn't personal. My guess is that I was a waypoint to get to Gizmodo.
    - 3143 14y ago
      The commenters are most likely Gizmodo readers who dislike his articles.