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  2. 2020 Twitter account hijacking - Wikipedia

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    The "@6" Twitter had belonged to Adrian Lamo, and the user maintaining the account on behalf of Lamo's family reported that the group that performed the hack were able to bypass numerous security factors they had set up on the account, including two-factor authentication, further indicating that the administrative tools had been used to bypass ...

  3. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account - AOL Help

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    If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated.

  4. Email hacking - Wikipedia

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    Email is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner. On some email platforms, it may also ...

  5. Emotet - Wikipedia

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    The infected email is a legitimate-appearing reply to an earlier message that was sent by the victim. [6] It has been widely documented that the Emotet authors have used the malware to create a botnet of infected computers to which they sell access in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, referred in the cybersecurity community as MaaS ...

  6. How Twitter’s biggest ever hack exposed serious threats to ...

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    The hack on the surface may appear to be a run-of-the-mill financial scam. As a scholar of internet governance and infrastructure, I see the underlying cybercrimes of this incident, such as ...

  7. Email addresses linked to 235M Twitter accounts leaked in hack

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    Updated January 6, 2023 at 7:44 AM. More than 200 million Twitter accounts, including email addresses, were leaked this week, raising privacy and security concerns. Alan Gal, the co-founder of ...

  8. Email addresses linked to 235M Twitter accounts leaked in hack

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    Updated January 6, 2023 at 4:44 AM. More than 200 million Twitter accounts, including email addresses, were leaked this week, raising privacy and security concerns. Alan Gal, the co-founder of ...

  9. Twitter bot - Wikipedia

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    A Twitter bot (or X bot) is a type of software bot that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API. The social bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, retweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other accounts. [2]