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   Snopes (snopes@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 07:44:33 JST Snopes

   It appears our Snopes' X/Twitter account has just been hacked.

   One of our staff was logged-in at the time and all of sudden got booted. We checked our email and noticed 3 just came in from X (first saying a new device logged-in then an email saying an authenticator app was added followed by an email saying our password was changed).

   I immediately reset the password as our email was still tied to the account but we still couldn't login because it said we need to use the authenticator app which we didn't add. I also immediately submitted a request to X support saying our account may have been hacked.

   Anything else we should do? This happened about 20 minutes ago. So far there are no weird posts on our account [x.com/snopes]. I'm hoping the hacker got booted when I submitted the password reset and request to X support immediately after being booted.

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     And How! (andhow@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 10:32:31 JST And How!

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     • The Tor Project

     @snopes As I said yesterday to @torproject: time to bail.

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     John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 10:32:35 JST John Regehr

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     • The Tor Project
     • And How!

     @andhow @snopes @torproject yesterday it was time to bail from X two years ago

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     And How! (andhow@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 10:32:59 JST And How!

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     @snopes I mean, is it "hacking" if the site admin is doing it?

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 11:05:01 JST Steve's Place

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     @snopes Good luck. Who knows? Maybe Elon decided he's the truth teller on X.