Twitter latest hacking 6 January at 9:55PM in Compers chat corner 6 replies 220 views

marialionza

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.

Blulu

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#latest

MikeJXE

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 more 

marialionza

Do you think is Twitter's password?

marialionza

This is what it says:

Date of breach:1 Jan 2021

Compromised 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.

jinchan

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.

marialionza

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.

Thanks jinchan. I shall do that right now.