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Twitter Refuses to Give Back @N Username to Original Owner

30
Jan
2014

So far, Twitter has refused to give back the @N username to Naoki Hiroshima after a hacker extorted him into handing it over.

Shortly after Hiroshima published his story, Twitter suspended the account. However, @N was later grabbed by someone else. Currently, @N has been renamed to Follow Badal_NEWS, which appears to be a locked Urdu language news account.

Twitter representatives have toldTechCrunchthat theyre investigating the matter,…

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