A Serious Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Your Twitter Account

Do you have a highly desired Twitter handle ? You should in all probability interchange your password . One substance abuser , Daniel Dennis Jones,—who formerly live on by @blanket — has unveil a very serious flawthat lets hacker crock up your account and put it up for sales event .

On Saturday , Twitter customer service of process advise Jones that his word had been changed . Alarming , because it clearly meant someone was attempt to bump a way into his bill . He tried to sign in but could n’t , but was still sign in on his earphone , and saw that all his tweet had been deleted and his follower count had drop to a big fat goose eggs .

Once he was able to log back into his account , his username had been changed to @FuckMyAssHoleLO , and his original handle , @blanket , now go to someone else . Jones did a little online digging to find his name with a bunch of other sought - after names on a website call ForumKorner , which is where his and other Twitter handles , some of which have been illegally prevail , are being sold .

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BuzzFeed FWD explains how hack were capable tobreak into his score so easily :

Most sites , including Twitter , flag or disable user account , or throw up a CAPTCHA , after a certain issue of failed login attempts . But whereas many services , including Gmail , limit login effort on a per - account basis , Twitter apparently only prevent large number of login attempts from the same IP destination . In other Good Book , hacker – or cracker , as they would call themselves – can seek to lumber in as many times as they want , so long as the login attempts come out to be coming from different computers .

you may read Daniel ’s intact tale onStorify . It ’s a good admonisher that you should be change your passwords regularly to protect yourself from losing any ounce of your digital life . [ BuzzFeed FWD ]

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