Re:Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
by ziddoap on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:55PM
(#31240069)
This is probably quite true.
Asserting that an elaborate full-scale Twitter hack is more probable than a single Twitter account (not protected by 2FA, from other comments), or a single machine hack, etc. is silly no matter how prolific of a HN user you are.
Statements like "There is no way that my account password was compromised without a much more elaborate hack of Twitter," are... questionable.
I'm not here to bash OP -- they may have been hacked or maybe Twitter was hacked, or something. But if this was me, or any non-prolific HN user, I'd have already been told to pound sand multiple times at this type of outrageous story with no evidence other than "my machines are secure".
Asserting that an elaborate full-scale Twitter hack is more probable than a single Twitter account (not protected by 2FA, from other comments), or a single machine hack, etc. is silly no matter how prolific of a HN user you are.
Statements like "There is no way that my account password was compromised without a much more elaborate hack of Twitter," are... questionable.
I'm not here to bash OP -- they may have been hacked or maybe Twitter was hacked, or something. But if this was me, or any non-prolific HN user, I'd have already been told to pound sand multiple times at this type of outrageous story with no evidence other than "my machines are secure".