How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by smartician on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @12:20AM (#7142078)

That reminds me, a few months ago I had a weird Twitter experience. Someone gained access to my rarely used Twitter account @smartician and started posting spam. Somehow Twitter noticed, reset the password and notified me via email. I have no idea how that was possible.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by westi on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:01AM (#7142808)

> Somehow Twitter noticed, reset the password and notified me via email. I have no idea how that was possible.

This sounds like pretty normal automated monitoring for what looks like compromised account behaviour.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by rth on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:03AM (#7142620)

It happened me as well, I just shut down the account.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by aestra on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:51AM (#7144523)

This happened to a friend of mine too, and he even forgot he had a twitter account.

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