Twitter is locked.

[KelliAutumn]

Apparently a group related to ISIS is hacking accounts...Maybe thousands of accounts being locked has to do with this as well?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/10/politics/isis-group-cybercaliphate-hacks-newsweek/

 

[AngelicTease]

Oohh! I thought twitter was angry at me for swearing too much, haha.

 

[Carmita Bonita]

If you search "twitter lock" tweets you can see the on-going site panic/randomness
"Retweet if you survived the twitted lock out"
"Twitter why did you lock my account for saying I wanted to kill myself?"
"TWITTER I APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT I DID! PLEASE UNLOCK MY ACCOUNT"

 

[LaceyRoyce]

Fuck. i just put my # in the box....

Do hackers now have my phone #?

 

[KelliAutumn]

Fuck. i just put my # in the box....

Do hackers now have my phone #?

I think this is Twitters attempt at unlocking and protecting accounts. My nerves are at an all time high. I DONT WANT ISIS TO GET ME or something insane.

 

[KelliAutumn]

If you search "twitter lock" tweets you can see the on-going site panic/randomness

LOLOL

 

[JerryBoBerry]

They try that with me i guess i'm done on twitter. I have no mobile phone to put in there and i wouldn't if i did. Hate when sites try to gather more information than they need.

 

[Ambers Troll]

I.S. related group is trying to stop the blowout from Kayla Jean Mueller confirmed death I suspect. So they are being pests.

 

[weirdbr]

They try that with me i guess i'm done on twitter. I have no mobile phone to put in there and i wouldn't if i did. Hate when sites try to gather more information than they need.

The reason they do that is for a 'two-step' authentication, which makes sense - with that, it goes from 'something you know' (the username+password combination) to 'something you have (phone) and something you know (username+password)'. Honestly, I would expect that more sites will start strongly suggesting using strong authentication via this method (or other methods, like U2F, which is supported in Chrome and I believe is being added to Firefox and Safari). And usually when they do that, the responsible companies make it clear that adding the phone number to their account database is only for this purpose and not for any other purposes such as advertising.

 

[Fay_Galore]

Some hackers hacked into some Twitter accounts and as a precaution Twitter is updating some security stuff causing some glitches. I don't think terrorist really would care about a few phone numbers from civilians

 

[RealFartNinja]

Some hackers hacked into some Twitter accounts and as a precaution Twitter is updating some security stuff causing some glitches. I don't think terrorist really would care about a few phone numbers from civilians

youd be surprised. someone hacked into my dads voicemail before and somehow used his cell account to make phone calls to other countries

 

[RedHerby]

Some hackers hacked into some Twitter accounts and as a precaution Twitter is updating some security stuff causing some glitches. I don't think terrorist really would care about a few phone numbers from civilians

youd be surprised. someone hacked into my dads voicemail before and somehow used his cell account to make phone calls to other countries

yeah, sure, that's why the bill showed all the phone calls to Romania ... we know better here on this forum !

 

[Jesse0328]

It looks like that there was a glitch with an automated tool which was causing Twitter to lock the accounts. Think Robot Santa Claus from Futurama.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/10/twitte ... nt-locked/