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Twitter latest hacking
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marialionza
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Does anyone know what to do about it. I received two warnings, one from "You've been pwned" and another one from Google. What to do ? What does all mean?
Thanks in advance (as if we didn't have enough, now this pain too !)
All the Best.
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I'm not exactly sure what to do about it if you are pwned, other than to change password/s. But here is a site to check if you have been: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Hope it's OK and not too much of a pain to sort.
Blu XXX
Edit to add: I've just seen this a few posts down in CCC. May well be relevent: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6415564/warning-take-care-with-twitter-competitions#latestI am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apology
THIS IS ME!
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You've been pwned Means a password you use has been compromised, someone has copied it.
I you look on havebeenpwned it might tell you more1 -
Do you think is Twitter's password?
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This is what it says:Date of breach:1 Jan 2021Compromised data:Email addresses, Names, Social media profiles, Usernames
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
It does not mention passwords. But still concerning since it came from Google too.
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If you haven't changed your password since January 2021, change it now. If you used that same password on other sites, change your password for those sites too.
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jinchan said:If you haven't changed your password since January 2021, change it now. If you used that same password on other sites, change your password for those sites too.
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