Email from Twitter... Twitter has reset your account password

grannybiker

Hi, grannybiker


Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.
You'll need to create a new password for your Twitter account. You can select a new password at this link:

blah-blah

I did try and log in, doublechecking my typing first and it didn't recognise my password, so assumed it was genuine....

Seems a few on Facebook have had it too. Must be all those re-tweets & regular Friday bans :rotfl:!

grannybiker

It gave me the option to check which apps had access after I'd changed my password, so I revoked it for all except Twitaculous & Unfollow

Daphne01

I've had the same too, I also had the app thing come and saved the same two as you GB
Great minds

vwcampervan72

Snap

Wonder what we've entered :rotfl:

Donnylover

ditto ditto ditto

spacey2012

PHISING:

They will use the e-mail address they sent the phising mail to you and hope you use the same details for e-bay and paypal or online banking.
Anyone who has attempted to log in revealing their password start worrying what else you use the same password for .
They now have your E-mail, the secondry E-mail you use associated with twitter, your name as they can access your twitter and any common password you use.

Daphne01

spacey2012 wrote: »

PHISING:

They will use the e-mail address they sent the phising mail to you and hope you use the same details for e-bay and paypal or online banking.
Anyone who has attempted to log in revealing their password start worrying what else you use the same password for .
They now have your E-mail, the secondry E-mail you use associated with twitter, your name as they can access your twitter and any common password you use.

I always generate one through roboform so no chance of any being the same

Edit: The email was genuinely from twitter as I tried to log on (I typed the address not through and links) and my password wouldn't work

bex88

I have just had the same thing happen, both twitter accounts from different emails. I didn't click the link just incase, I went straight to twitter and tried to log in.

On both, it told me I need to reset my passwords.

We all must of entered something dodgey.

Scanning my pc just in case too.

happybunny199

I got the same email too. All the links are genuine, but to be safe I logged in and generated a new password.

The last thing I used twitter for yesterday was some Competwition entries, anyone else?

Zanzib

Yes, happened to me too.

So I went to my Twitter link saved in my favourites and logged in and reset that way.

I knew this was genuine as I had this happen with my normal non-comping twitter account last year.


The last one I did on Twitter was @Falconbags - in fact that was the only Tweet I did yesterday.

spanglish

Happened to me earlier today so I changed it but now I've just had the same email again. Anyone know what's going on?