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muriel_volestrangler

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4. I got a couple of emails this week saying someone had requested a password reset for my account

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 11:55 AM

Feb 2013

but the way they were worded, it seemed that it was just someone using the "I've forgotten my password" feature - which isn't 'hacking', to me. Now I don't know if Twitter meant someone had got further than that.

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Hackers target Twitter, access about 250,000 user accounts [View all] Bosonic Feb 2013 OP

mine was one of them, despite a very very strong password nt steve2470 Feb 2013 #1

" http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/02/us-twitter-hacked-idUSBRE91100I20130202" greiner3 Feb 2013 #2

Okay, now they're just being dicks. n/t Ian David Feb 2013 #3

These are prolly just hackers who hateful people are associating with the "Anonymous" that loudsue Feb 2013 #5

I hope they didn't hack the passwords of their own Twitter followers. n/t Ian David Feb 2013 #7

Anonymous is hardly a coherent, monolithic entity. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #9

I got a couple of emails this week saying someone had requested a password reset for my account muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #4

How many idiots use a twidiot l/p for their bank or cc l/p? L0oniX Feb 2013 #6

Internet security Eljo_Don Feb 2013 #8