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Twitter <3's hackers, apparently

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I think this makes it pretty clear how seriously Twitter takes their security: The guy who hacked my account is still happily tweeting away about the latest social engineering methods and how it was my fault that he hacked into my personal accounts so he could try to sell @Ruby on hackerforum.net. 

Better late than never, Twitter added two-step authentication for accounts last month, but it’s clear they aren’t really concerned about their users when they do nothing to help protect users like me or @Mat, even when we know people are targeting us, and let genuine security risks chill out indefinitely.

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Please share this post if you agree that Twitter should take action against “Isolate” and any users who are known to have hacked other people’s Twitter accounts in the past. 

Shits & giggles for the rest of us

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I’m not going to post everything that has been going on yesterday and today (yet) as the hackers are reading my Tumblr.  I have to share some amusing and quite public links.

Meet my hacker “Isolate.” This is the person who hacked most of my digital life so he could try to sell @ruby for $80. I alerted Twitter about his account this over an hour ago. It’s obviously fine with them to hack other people’s accounts AND brag about it with their service. 

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Poor guy is concerned that I am giving some clueless teenager credit for his brilliant social engineering hack. Don’t worry d00d, it’s pretty obvious when you read the conversations at Hack Forums where Isolate first asks what it’s worth (the page has been removed, but I saved it), then trades it to —— J —— (Jacob Glickman) for a YouTube ID. Then —— J —— tries to sell it even though the other hackers are telling him that it belongs to someone else (me) and even tell him to read my Tumblr.

Jacob then contacted me offering to get me back the account. He even tried to get me to e-mail him by putting his address in my Twitter bio. Not only was it not his to give, he would never have been able to restore my posts and followers, as Twitter eventually rightfully did.

Here is the best of all, —— J —— now files a complaint against Isolate for ripping him off! Have fun, you guys!