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Victim of Twitter username hijacking gets a handle on @N once again

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Feb

2014

The high-profile theft of a single-letter Twitter username has a happy ending — at least for now. Naoki Hiroshima, who managed to score @N, though had it hijacked as part of an eye-opening social engineering scheme last month, is now once again in control of it. Hiroshima tweeted Order has been restored from the account today: Order has […]

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@JB Twitter Username Targeted by Hacker

31

Jan

2014

A few days ago, we learned the story of Naoki Hiroshima who was forced to hand over the @N Twitter handle to a hacker who had hijacked his GoDaddy account. It appears that this isnt an isolated case. The owner of the @JB Twitter username has a similar story. Because of Justin Bieber and the […]

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@N Hack: GoDaddy Admits Employee Had Been Social Engineered, PayPal Denies It

30

Jan

2014

On Wednesday, we learned that a hacker managed to hijack the coveted @N Twitter username after extorting its owner into handing it over. The former owner of the account, Naoki Hiroshima, has blamed PayPal and GoDaddy for the incident. He claims the hacker gained access to his GoDaddy account after soc…

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