Meanwhile, over 130 celebrity Twitter accounts were affected by the scam including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Victims who sent Bitcoin of course never received any reward in return and the bad actors were able to get away with over $100,000. After accessing the Twitter accounts, hackers sent out tweets posing as charitable donations in the form of Bitcoin due to the COVID-19 pandemic, urging people to send sums of Bitcoin in order to receive that amount doubled. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama were affected by a Twitter hacking scam in 2020, in which bad actors infiltrated the accounts of several notable people. 2020 Twitter account hijacking Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Again, password managers will fix this easily, but this is the most dangerous way to leave yourself vulnerable. Don’t reuse the same password for every account you have online. The former Twitter CEO had his own Twitter account hacked in 2016 after bad actors guessed his Foursquare password and figured out, he was reusing the same password for his social media account.Īnother easy lesson for this one. Choose a reliable password manager, and you’ll never accidentally have this problem. But let it serve as a reminder to not store your passwords on sticky notes or on easily accessible online documents. This one isn’t technically a hack or someone guessing an easy password. Lisa Kudrow 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporationįriend’s actress, Lisa Kudrow accidentally doxed herself in 2019 when she uploaded a photo to her Twitter which included a sticky note with the password to her account. Coming up with a good password requires moving around the keyboard a bit more. Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg had his Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram compromised in 2016 by the hacker group OurMine for having the notoriously lazy password of dadada. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook That might not apply to the average person, but the idea is to make sure answers to security questions are obscure enough to only be known by you. The lesson here is simple: if you have a famous dog, don’t make it the answer to your security question. From there, a bad actor could input their own password and access her account.” It wasn’t necessarily social engineering or a security hole or even real hacking (though, in some sense, it was a combination of all three),” Masnick added. Techdirt Editor-in-Cheif, Mike Masnick noted that a common security question when resetting a password is “What is your favorite pet’s name?” For Hilton, the obvious answer would be Tinkerbell. However, others have discussed that the password might not have directly been Tinkerbell but somehow related to the name. In 2005, socialite and heiress Paris Hilton’s T-Mobile account was hacked after bad actors figured out the password was tinkerbell, the name of her beloved pet Chihuahua. Paris Hilton In 2007 Paris Hilton with her pink Motorola Razr V3 made the Razr the most popular phone.
It might satisfy the password generators, but it’s the most obvious and commonly used special characters. Second, don’t use the current year or an exclamation point at the end of your password. The lesson here? One, keep your catchphrases to yourself. In 2020, the same hacker was able to infiltrate Trump’s Twitter account again by guessing the password once more, as maga2020!, another catchphrase of his. In 2018, a Dutch hacker famously gained access to former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account by simply guessing the password, yourefired, which was his catchphrase on his reality show, The Apprentice. President Donald Trump Getty Images/Digital Trends Graphic
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