My computer my iphone and.
Rise of hackers mat honan twitter.
For the hackers a trophy.
The ultimate prize was his twitter account mat.
Apparently it all started when the hackers compromised the icloud account of mat honan a former gizmodo employee.
The target of the attack was honan s twitter account but it could have been much worse.
Synthetic fraud schemes are on the rise thanks to the abundance of security breaches recently including.
Earlier this week mat honan a senior writer for wired watched as his digital identity was taken from him and then systematically deleted by hackers who had cracked into his icloud account.
Two million german vodaphone customers credit card numbers from home depot and the apple icloud hack.
By taking advantage of alarmingly relaxed security policies at apple and amazon hackers were able to breach honan s twitter google and icloud accounts.
Hackers gathered data from various sources to wreak online havoc.
They took over his twitter account.
According to honan that allowed them to take over his google and twitter accounts.