{"id":41267,"date":"2013-02-04T17:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=41267"},"modified":"2013-02-04T17:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:38:23","slug":"updating-your-twitter-password-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/updating-your-twitter-password-isnt-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating your Twitter Password Isn\u2019t Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterhack.jpg\" alt=\"twitterhack\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterhack.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterhack-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/br>By Bill Pytlovany<\/p>\n<h3>Updating your Twitter Password Isn\u2019t Enough<\/h3>\n<p>It happens so often that many of you probably ignore the newest reports of a bank or web service being hacked and personal information being stolen. Most news stations probably have a macro they can just fill in the variables that looks like \u201cToday <X> was the victim of hackers. Information including name, passwords, credit card information, and <Y> for more than <N> customers was stolen and is now being sold online to other hacker groups.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Most companies do little to notify customers and have a policy to reduce the severity perception of any attack. The common response is \u201cNo indication of customer data being abused has been reported\u201d. In severe cases a company may offer free credit report monitoring for a year to their customers. Unfortunately, this typically requires you to sign up using a credit card and unless you remember to cancel you\u2019ll automatically be renewed and charged for any future years. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter says \u201cattack was not the work of amateurs\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, the public news report is that information from approximately 250,000 Twitter accounts was stolen. Twitter has taken action but I recommend you do more than just change your password. Even if you don\u2019t use Twitter this attack may still affect you.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately try to sign on Twitter and change your password. If your account was compromised Twitter may have already changed your password and you won\u2019t be able to sign on. Don\u2019t keep trying to sign on or you may be blocked.  Even if you weren\u2019t a victim, tell Twitter to send you a password reset link to your associated Email address.  Check your Email and create a new password that you\u2019ll remember and is different than your current password. <\/p>\n<p>Important: If you used your Twitter password or even something similar on other services like Facebook, start going to all the other services you use and change your password. I know keeping track of passwords is hard but hackers know you share passwords. <\/p>\n<p>The bad guys have automated tools which are now trying to use your Twitter Email and password to access Facebook, Google+, Gmail, Pinterest, Microsoft Live, LinkedIn,  Instagram, WordPress, BlogSpot and even GoDaddy. <\/p>\n<p>When you reset your password be sure to verify all the email accounts and cell phone numbers which are associated with your account. A hacker will add contact information so they\u2019ll be able to re-reset your password and no matter how many times you change your password, they\u2019ll still have it. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/billpstudios.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/updating-your-twitter-password-isnt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with Bill&#8217;s permission from his blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterhack.jpg\" alt=\"twitterhack\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterhack.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitterhack-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, the public news report is that information from approximately 250,000 Twitter accounts was stolen. Twitter has taken action but I recommend you do more than just change your password. 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