Twitter Accounts Getting Hijacked

Adam DesAutels on 10 29, 2009

Throughout the last few days I have been getting a number of DMs on Twitter saying “”hi, this works, i feel better and look great.” w/link. At first I thought it was just spam. Then I started going to the users Twitter pages that were sending me those DMs. They actually looked like legit accounts and they were. They were just taken over. We have seen this happen in the past with sites like Facebook.

Twitter Phishing Scam

NEW – i made $426.23 online today with http://”link”

I believe these all are some sort of phishing scam that could result in someone taking over your Twitter account and trying to scam your following. DO NOT CLICK ON THESE LINKS!! And under no circumstances enter your username and password after opening on of these links!

What to do if your Twitter account gets hacked?

Log out of Twitter immediately (this will invalidate the session cookie).
Clear your browser cache and exit your browser completely (this will stop suspicious or unwanted programs that may be running in the background of your browser).
Open a new browser window and log in to Twitter. Then, immediately change your password. You can also use the Twitter password reset feature to set a new password before logging in again.
Visit your settings page and check your Connections. Revoke access for any third-party application that you don’t recognize.

For more info visit Twitter support.

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Adam DesAutels