Two Cautionary Tales of Twitter Extortion
A security blogger and a startup CEO found themselves under attack for their prime Twitter handles. While the blogger lost his account, both offer lessons for protecting yourself against Twitter extortion.
When Twitter filed its IPO in September, some of us had fun calculating the value of our personal Twitter accounts. While for some of us, this was just a gag, for others, having the wrong Twitter handle could mean regular requests — and in some cases, extortion — to give up those accounts.
One story came from Medium blogger, Naoki Hiroshima. He had a single letter Twitter handle for which he says he had been offered up to $50,000.
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