June 11, 2020

Bitcoin scammers take YouTube channels for a SpaceX ride

Multiple hijacked YouTube accounts impersonated Elon Musk's Space X channel in a Bitcoin scheme that ripped off nearly $150,000.

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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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April 23, 2020

Password-free database of exercise app Kinomap leaks 42m user records

It's like a cloud of personal information breathed out in a plume by a database that didn't bother to wear a mask.

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February 11, 2020

Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hijacked

In full glare of the world, Facebook admins have found themselves in an unseemly struggle to wrestle back control of the company’s Twitter accounts.

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February 04, 2020

Twitter hands over student’s account to his college

Twitter admitted it broke the rules when it handed over control of the student's account to college administrators.

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January 29, 2020

15 NFL teams’ Twitter hijacked in lead-up to the Super Bowl

"We are here to show people that everything is hackable," says hacking group OurMine, back to spread its unwelcome spiel on hacked accounts.

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December 17, 2019

Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers

Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.

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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 24, 2019

YouTube ‘influencers’ get 2FA tokens phished

100K or so creators in the YouTube car community were targeted by a phishing campaign that captured 2FA codes.

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