Hacker steals @LAU Twitter account, attempts to sell it

Posted by DomainGang on August 17, 2016, at 1:39 pm

Richard Lau’s Twitter account got compromised a few days ago, by a hacker who attempted to sell it. The premium, ultra-short @LAU account was obtained by Richard Lau in May, to be used for his family. A hacker managed to gain access to the Twitter account, reset the password, and changed the email address it […]

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PayPal ‘assisted’ GoDaddy account hacker to extort owner of single letter Twitter handle @N

Posted by DomainGang on January 29, 2014, at 1:43 am

In a shocking and hair-raising story, app developer Naoki Hiroshima details how a hacker targeted his Twitter handle @N (single letter) by hacking his GoDaddy account with a little help from PayPal. There are 26 single letter Twitter handles – A to Z – and Naoki Hiroshima had been offered as much as $50,000 for […]

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Hacker steals @LAU Twitter account, attempts to sell it

PayPal ‘assisted’ GoDaddy account hacker to extort owner of single letter Twitter handle @N

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