Alert: Your Twitter Handle Could Be Stolen And Sold
Think your Twitter handle is safe from hackers? Think again. There’s a pretty horrible security flaw that leaves your account vulnerable.
And if you have a snappy, one-word handle, you’re more likely to be on a hacker’s hit list.
Just ask @Blanket.
Buzzfeed reports that “Twitter user Daniel Dennis Jones — @blanket, at the time — received a notification that his Twitter password had been reset,” and then after seeing his name changed and realizing he’d been hacked, he found his beloved @Blanket up for sale – alongside a BUNCH of other names:
Big deal, he must have had an easy password? Not so fast.
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