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  • Twitter's CFO is not very good at using Twitter (update)

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    Richard Lawler
    Richard Lawler
    02.10.2015

    A hacked account can happen to the best of us, but it's a bit embarrassing when you're an executive of the service in question. Enter Anthony Noto, Chief Financial Officer of Twitter. He's already suffered a "DM fail" -- accidentally tweeting a message instead of sending it privately -- that revealed a possible acquisition in the works, and today his account appears to have been hijacked by a URL spammer (as seen here, but obviously you should not click the links). Usually these things happen when a user clicks on a phishing link and enters their login details on a webpage spoofing the original service, but there are several ways (besides intense vigilance and never clicking on anything, ever) to prevent this.