Forum - View topicNEWS: Viz Media's X/Twitter Account Hacked
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mdo7
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Oh goodness, to anyone having social media regardless if it's Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, or even Twitter/X. Please put multi/2-factor authentication for your social media profile, they can be hacked easily even with a very strong password!!! Please treat your social media accounts/profiles like they're your bank accounts!!!
Speaking of 2-factor authentication, and hacking, I do worried about my ANN profile being hacked and being used to post spam or somebody using my ANN profile to post insults and racist slur at another ANN forumite (which is not my character, or who I am). Are there any chances or have any plan for ANN to offer users/netizens to have 2-factor authentication for accounts to prevent unwanted hacking? |
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ZelosZoidberg
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^I second this. Also don't make it a SMS 2 factor because those can easily be hacked /spoofed as well. A actual authenticator app like Microsoft or Google is the best solution.
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Kougeru
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It wasn't "hacked". Hacking is a much more intricate process and no one would bother hacking an account with such low reach.
No, they can't be "hacked" with a strong password. What happens over 99% of the time is people get phished. They get tricked into giving the passwords or security answers away. The other common cause of this is session cookie hijacks, usually done via an infected pdf file that someone opens carelessly. These crypto scammers almost always use session hijacks to steal accounts, especially on YouTuber and Twitter. Also, for some strange reason, Twitter does not have any 2-factor options. Anyway, the solution is to not input your data into weird places and don't open files from random people. |
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Multi-Facets
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I'm trying to find the right settings to activate two-factor authentication on my FB/Insta myself. A friend lost her FB to a crypto scammer and is still fighting to get it back. We would both leave entirely, but we have too many memories there. It's also the only way to reach some people I know 'cause they never [censored] check their [double-censored] personal e-mails.
In this case, though, I would've thought that a company would have better security protocols, so it's surprising and unsurprising that leaks and hacks occur. How do companies handle stuff like this? I'm sorry if that's an obvious question, but I have no idea. |
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mdo7
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Check your PM/private message, I don't want to derail the topic. |
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Vanadise
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You'd be surprised! I don't know anything about Viz in specific, but media companies often have nobody on staff who is a security expert. They often entirely outsource their IT support to external companies. If they have their own internal marketing department who handles their social media accounts, there's a good chance they just have a spreadsheet on a network drive somewhere with all of their logins and passwords in it, and they don't set up 2FA so that the account doesn't require a specific person's phone to access it. All it takes is a single person who has logged into the account clicking on a link in a phishing e-mail, and now their account has been compromised. The best way to prevent this from happening, of course, is to just delete your Twitter account. |
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Greed1914
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Yeah, things like social media accounts are oftentimes run by just somebody at the company that got assigned to do it, like a brand manager or something. |
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Art_gamer86
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This is another reason they are probably going to move off the platform. This has become unhealthy after Musk for a company. |
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Twage
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X dot com is a cesspool owned by a Nazi.
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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Unless they've disabled more people from being able to access it, Twitter does have 2-factor. I have it on my own account. Any time I want to log in, I have to boot up a separate app on my phone (not Twitter-affiliated) that gives me a multi-digit code that refreshes every 30 seconds or so and input it in order to complete the log-in. |
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Yttrbio
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TwittX did disable SMS 2-factor for non-premium users. But authenticator apps are still available for everyone
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BadNewsBlues
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I second this I have it with my current twitter account |
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Dr. Wily
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I wouldn't say they're "low reach" at all. I mean, sure, in the grand scheme of things compared to the whole of Twitter, they're smaller, but they're still a huge anime licensor/distributor of anime & manga with over a million followers. More importantly, if whoever hijacked the account is trying to use it to plug some crap crypto that's using Viz's name, it'll almost certainly trick at least one poor sap (but likely more) into investing, which is just a shame. That said, sure, the kind of hacking you're talking about is more complicated than what most likely happened in this case, but, well, "hacking" is the shorthand that pretty much everybody uses for things like this. |
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mdo7
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Yes Lynzee is correct and I can back her up, I too have a Twitter/X account and I set up a 2-factor authentication for my Twitter/X profile. Anyone that use (even a long time user) or used to had Twitter would know about the 2-factor authentication on there for a long time. |
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thecowardlyantoine
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I used to work tech support and the amount of "my Facebook was hacked" was really just "I logged onto Facebook on a public computer and never logged out so the next person who used the computer messed around with some stuff" |
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