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GoDaddy owns up to role in epic Twitter account hijacking |
January 30, 2014
GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of its employees fell victim to a social engineering attack allowing a hacker to take over a customer’s domain names and eventually extort a coveted Twitter user name from him. PayPal, which the victim claimed also played a role in the attack, denied the accusations.Naoki Hiroshima, a software engineer and creator of the Cocoyon location sharing mobile app, reported Wednesday in a blog post that a hacker successfully extorted him into giving up his single-letter Twitter user name, called @N, after first hijacking his domain names registered at GoDaddy, email address and Facebook account.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2093100/godaddy-owns-up-to-role-in-twitter-account-hijacking-incident.html#tk.rss_all
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