Did I ever tell you about the time I got hacked by the Russians? No? I didn’t think so. It was a probably a couple years ago. I think about it often. đŸ˜±
I’d been saying Putin wants Alaska back since 2016. https://twitter.com/girlsparky_/status/809211384449748993
I got two replies in Russian to a tweet similar to the one above. The replies were short and didn’t make any sense to me. It kinda freaked me out.
I went to take screenshots about an hour later and both replies were gone. Whatever. No big deal. Right? Wrong.
I have an alt. I set up years ago. I use it if someone has me blocked on a good thread that I want to read. The emails for these two accounts were changed in a way made sure I knew I got hacked.
They changed one of my twitter accounts to a totally different email that had never been associated with twitter and used its old email for my other account.
At minimum they had passwords to both my twitter accounts and two of my email accounts. It took me months to juggle my twitter accounts back to their original emails.
So take all precautions with your security. We may think we’re just talking amongst ourselves but others are listening. Use 2FA. Always.
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