April 29, 2020

Twitter turns off SMS-based tweeting in most countries

Buh-bye, original way of tweeting. Twitter said it's to keep our accounts safe, referring to unspecified SMS-enabled vulnerabilities.

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November 27, 2019

Police arrest alleged Chuckling Squad member who hijacked @Jack Dorsey

Debug, another Chuckling Squadder, told Motherboard that the kid was weird, "Swatting celebrities for a follow back."

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September 06, 2019

Twitter turns off SMS texting after @Jack hijacking

Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix & its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA.

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April 16, 2019

Watch out! Don’t fall for the Instagram ‘Nasty List’ phishing attack

Instagram users have been receiving odd messages from followers expressing shock that their accounts have somehow ended up on something called the “Nasty List.”

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February 19, 2019

Facebook flaw could have allowed an attacker to hijack accounts

The CSRF bypass flaw has now been fixed, and the researcher who discovered it has netted $25,000.

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February 11, 2019

McDonalds app users hatin’ it after being hacked by hungry hamburglars

At least two users of the McDonalds mobile app aren’t lovin’ it after thieves hijacked their accounts and ordered hundreds of dollars of food for themselves.

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January 18, 2018

Hijackers DM @realDonaldTrump from former Fox News hosts’ accounts

The hackers tweeted out love for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: "We love turkish soldiers, we love Erdogan, we love Turkey."

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May 24, 2017

Hacked Twitter account spits out poison – make sure yours isn’t next

Salem State University was horrified when its account was taken over and used to spout racist venom - how could they have prevented it? We've got some advice

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August 23, 2016

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ Twitter account hijacked

First Mark Zuckerberg, and now the hacking outfit, OurMine, have hijacked another high-profile Twitter account.

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