Twitter account hacked

[Alexrat1996]

I deactivated my Twitter account last weeks and I get an email saying my twitter account was reactived and logged in from an unusually location who the naughty person trying to logging to my account I had to change password and redelete the account

 

[LizKat]

I deactivated my Twitter account last weeks and I get an email saying my twitter account was reactived and logged in from an unusually location who the naughty person trying to logging to my account I had to change password and redelete the account

It's actually good practice to change an account's password before triggering a delete request... for the reason you just noted, i.e. someone else could try to revive the thing with a stolen pass.

Thanks for sharing, hope others will consider your experience and benefit from it.

 

[Alexrat1996]

I deleted it again I hope I don't get hacked again

 

[Videomanmac]

Did you change the password?

 

[Alexrat1996]

Did you change the password?

Yes and I deleted the account already

 

[JackieInCo]

I had the same message on both of my Twitter accounts yesterday. One login came from New Mexico and the other just said it noticed suspicious activity.

One account was opened in 2009 but I only used it that summer and the other one is my daily. Usually it warns me if I login from another browser which is normal but they always say the logon came from Arvada Colorado and not New Mexico. I changed the password.

These "hackers" were busy yesterday.

 

[kazmac]

Thanks for the information and the steps you took to ensure your account would not be hacked again OP.

 

[Alexrat1996]

Deleted the account who the bad person who can guess my password It hard to figure out

 

[Videomanmac]

One day, I found my Twitter account to have a lot of unwanted and random followers!
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Deleted the account who the bad person who can guess my password It hard to figure out

What was the IP address?

 

[Alexrat1996]

One day, I found my Twitter account to have a lot of unwanted and random followers!
[doublepost=1471893483][/doublepost]
What was the IP address?

Not even sure it won't say

 

[Videomanmac]

Not even sure it won't say

What was their location then?

 

[Alexrat1996]

What was their location then?

The email won't say

 

[Videomanmac]

The email won't say

Have you been pwned?

 

[Alexrat1996]

Have you been pwned?

Not sure I check Twitter setting and nothing

 

[JackieInCo]

Deleted the account who the bad person who can guess my password It hard to figure out

They probably use a script that just tries to guess the password. Occasionally they will get lucky.

 

[Alexrat1996]

Oh my

 

[JackieInCo]

I just got another one saying that twitter noticed suspicious login attempts. Here's the email I've been getting. It's not an actual login, just an attempt. This email IS from Twitter.

 

[Alexrat1996]

I just got another one saying that twitter noticed suspicious login attempts. Here's the email I've been getting. It's not an actual login, just an attempt. This email IS from Twitter.

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Same thing