Twitter Is Resetting Passwords For Hijacked Accounts

Now is as good a time as any to double check your Twitter security. The Twitter safety team is going around resetting the passwords of any account that has been affected by a phishing scam.

Twitter periodically cleans up the scams and hacked accounts that bubble up to the surface, and now they’re looking into those accounts that have been specifically targeted by a phishing scam.

A phishing scam is an attempt to gain access to someone’s account by figuring out their password.

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