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Here's one interesting thing about the Twitter account hacks that i haven't seen anyone mention yet. First, if you're living under a rock, this is how it works: a (supposed) journalist (often bloomberg or techcrunch) sends you a calendly link to talk to you. If you open+accept, you're hacked. So this tells us some things about those we see getting hacked. For one, they get all giggity about a journo wanting to talk to them, so much that they skip the common sense checks in the process. (for a technologically literate person like you and me, anyways) But what's more, this is especially damning for those at BigCo's, because they are *specifically forbidden* to talk to journalists without prior approval. So yeah...
@giffmana How accepting an invite can *hack you*?!
@giffmana even funnier is that it has made me so paranoid that i do a lot of back and forth with *real* journalists in an embarrassing fashion
@francoisfleuret @giffmana you authorize the fake calendly app as a twitter integration which will post on your behalf
@francoisfleuret @giffmana they ask you to log in with twitter on the fake calendly site