More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts

Re:More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of... by ecmascript on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:04AM (#23938482)

They do this for all new accounts. It's a way to harvest phone numbers from unsuspecting victims of this surveillance.

It doesn't matter from what ip, machine or whatever you register. It will automatically get suspended because I think they've realized it's easier to force people to enter their phone numbers in "protection" after they just created an account rather than to just ask for it during signup.

Less questions are asked. I wrote a blog post on my now deleted blog, but discussions on HN was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19487304

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Re:More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of... by suizi on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:36PM (#23969672)

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905383/twitter-phone-nu... Twitter caught using phone numbers for marketing purposes.

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Re:More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of... by uallo on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:32AM (#23938684)

I was assuming something like that. Very shady.

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