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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by simonebrunozzi on Sunday May 26, 2019 @01:04PM (#20015953)
Something similar happened to me on May 23rd, 2019 (three days ago) [0], where I ended up losing my Twitter account.

Essentially, my t-mobile mobile phone number was hijacked (despite I had a PIN, which the attacker didn't need - poor security practice by t-mobile), and after that they proceed to change the password of my Twitter account using the phone.

Thankfully I was close to a t-mobile shop in San Francisco, and ~40 minutes later I regained control of my SIM card. Nothing else has been affected so far.

FYI, T-mobile can't be sued for damage resulting from something like this. We have to "thank" judge Scalia for this.

As of now, Twitter is slowly responding to my issue, despite I had a few friends there try to help.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19998553

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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by mieseratte on Sunday May 26, 2019 @01:07PM (#20015967)
> We have to "thank" judge Scalia for this.

Thank your legislature, not your judiciary.

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