4 ms·
You made it to HN front page so help from twitter is probably on the way. On the same topic: How do these accounts (including email) get hacked? Does brute for
by OGinparadise 14y ago
You made it to HN front page so help from twitter is probably on the way.
On the same topic: How do these accounts (including email) get hacked? Does brute force work even with max number of failed logins or what?
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- zaru 14y agoMy email was not hacked but the Twitter account was compromised.
- t1 14y agoWhat was the password (in terms of what it contained)? Was the password more like 'baseball' or 'B@s3B41122984'? It's possible that someone has the copyright or convinced support they were you if the password is indeed complex. You can contact twitter support. https://twitter.com/crystal https://twitter.com/crystal
- meric 14y agot1's dead post: What was the password (in terms of what it contained)? Was the password more like 'baseball' or 'B@s3B41122984'? It's possible that someone has the copyright or convinced support they were you if the password is indeed complex. You can contact twitter support. https://twitter.com/crystal https://twitter.com/crystal -----
- cynix 14y agoOf course, we don't know if zaru is actually the rightful owner of the account. He could be trying to convince us (and Twitter support) in an attempt to take over the account...
- axelfreeman 14y agoI think and hope that twitter has a history of changes in the account. So that they can find the takeover.
- zaru 14y agoUnderstandable remark cynix but I am definitely @yes. You can ask any of my friends and followers. I do believe they keep the history of your user account, my biggest concern is recovering my account now that the hacker removed all my person info from it.
- midibite 14y agoProbably these dudes: http://www.yesworld.com/ http://www.yesworld.com/
- IvyMike 14y agoSimple brute force won't work against any but the most naive sites. A lot of accounts are hacked through exploiting weaknesses in the "I forgot my password" secondary login method.
- aw3c2 14y agoplease do not encourage doing "instead of waiting for the reply from Twitter support I will post on HN too" posts. this is just noise, nothing interesting.