Mat honan mathonan on buzzfeed.
Mat honan twitter handle.
They took over his twitter.
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The attackers wanting honan s mat twitter handle look up his twitter account and find his personal details including his gmail address.
Reporter mat honan fell victim to a multipronged attack by hackers this past weekend and he s just published an exhaustive piece at wired detailing the incident.
It s easy to forget just how good things seemed back in october 2000.
That s what got the ball rolling for honan s nightmare and it has happened numerous other times including the 2008 hack of sarah palin s yahoo account and the 2009 corporate twitter hack.
They just wanted to take.
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Is grab twitter handles.
Wired s mat honan joins the podcast this week to discuss his terrifying hacking ordeal with longtime friend and propublica senior editor eric umansky.
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Desirable twitter handle.
That s all they wanted.
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He said the hack was simply a grab for my three character twitter handle.
They initiated a password recovery at gmail and thereby.