Sort of an important notice

[white_deviling]

Yesterday, my Twitter account was suddenly hacked and used to send spam tweets about some 'weight loss' solution - luckily, I only have two followers there.

However, seeing as I don't ever click on any links from random e-mails/messages, much less be foolish enough to type my username and pass on Phishing pages, I've come to several conclusions

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[ikilledthemoon]

It happened to my AIM email the other day. What's more likely is that someone brute-forced it; i.e. they used a program that enters thousands of combinations of letters and numbers per second and just left it running until something worked. I had that same fear, and my AIM account is fine.

[white_deviling]

Yeah. Twitter also has this security hole where you can try repeatedly to access an account as long as you have different IP addresses; it won't stop you unless you're retrying on the same address, and that makes it easier to use those programs.

Anyways, I've changed the password on that, and the spam stopped.