"How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username"

[FlyingJesus]

If he hadn't used the account since 2007 and was offered 50k for it why didn't he just sell the damned thing :S also wouldn't it be kinda easy to work out who stole it since they now have that account...

[mrwoooooooo]

aaaaaaaaaaand this is why you should use two factor authentication on everything you can

[Recursion]

If he hadn't used the account since 2007 and was offered 50k for it why didn't he just sell the damned thing :S also wouldn't it be kinda easy to work out who stole it since they now have that account...

Because he's a freelance programmer/designer, so probably on 200k+ anyway.

aaaaaaaaaaand this is why you should use two factor authentication on everything you can

He did!

[mrwoooooooo]

Because he's a freelance programmer/designer, so probably on 200k+ anyway.



He did!

oh yeah

paypal and godaddy sucks then

[Aiden]

Oh my god that's terrible. I can't believe who easy he got control of it.

[GommeInc]

Read it this morning. When I saw "GoDaddy" it was enough to think "'nuff said".

If Twitter, PayPal and Godaddy have any sense they will work hard to right these obvious wrongs. Giving out credit card details and letting people guess the first 2 digits violates so many protocols on data protection. It should have sent alarm bells ringing that the person they were talking to did not own the accounts, and all this for an @N twitter account. How pathetic is this person, and how stupid are these companies for letting this happen?

[FlyingJesus]

Meh I still wouldn't turn down 50k for something I'm never gonna use

[e5]

A time consuming job on the attackers part, but I suppose worth it for a $50,000 twitter account (I don't actually think anyone would pay this stupid figure...)

I hope paypal, godaddy and twitter resolve this although I assume this attacker is going to be untraceable!

[xxMATTGxx]

Interesting tweet from PayPal

Re: this incident http://t.co/bOiuzqvFep, our investigation confirmed PayPal did NOT disclose any credit card details. More info soon.

— Ask PayPal (@AskPayPal) January 29, 2014

So who's telling the truth? Then again the guy just got the information for the "hacker".

TheVerge:

Update: Paypal has released a brief statement relating to this hack on Twitter, saying that "our investigation confirmed PayPal did NOT disclose any credit card details. More info soon." This would be in direct conflict to the original story posted by Hiroshima which said that Paypal released the last four digits of his credit card to hackers, allowing them to gain access to his GoDaddy account. We'll be keeping an eye to see what else Paypal has to say about its involvement in this hack.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/53...godaddy-paypal

[GommeInc]

If he has to blamed for anything, he has to be blamed for using GoDaddy. Why anyone still uses that company is beyond reason.