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Twitter tells me my account may have been compromised - what does that mean?
1 point by brazzy on Jan 10, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I just got an email from Twitter:

---------------------------------- Hi, brazzy

Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.

You'll need to create a new password for your Twitter account. You can select a new password at this link:

[...]

Please don't reuse your old password and be sure to choose a strong password (such as one with a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols). ----------------------------------

Wthat the hell does that mean? Can someone translate that from CRMese into techspeak? Did they give their account data to someone else? Did someone try to brute-force my account?

I barely use twitter and have never used third-party clients.



I'll bet the link they provide doesn't actually go to twitter for real, but goes to a harvesting site.

In short, it's phishing.




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