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Colin Charles
@bytebot
Farcaster fam, I have finally regained access to my X account. It has been a harrowing few days (imagine waking up ~7am on a Sunday morning to see your X account is gone). There are 2 people that likely helped move things along - an engineer at X (former GSoC student - I was once a program admin+mentor too for many years at MySQL and MariaDB), and a public policy person. They helped get those tickets moving. I revoked access to all apps - this believe app thing - happened while I was asleep. And there shouldn't be anything weird about the Twitter for iPhone access (one is via 5G, the other is via home WiFi. Believe stands out like a sore thumb there. How did this likely happen? You can ask for 2FA reset - https://help.x.com/en/forms/account-access/regain-access/2fa-problem And as long as you know an email address AND/OR a phone number - you can also get a password reset. If this information is public (e.g. in WHOIS records), you're hosed! Hacker did not use Grok. Looks like it was just to launch coin
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sparkz
@jacy
sorry, i missed this - what happened? did believe take over your account and launch a coin?
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Colin Charles
@bytebot
Nope. I don’t even use believe. But X has weak security so even with 2FA, it was reset, believe launched a coin, someone else’s x account was also hacked to repost. Was a mess and I was locked out since Sunday morning
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