Tech giants and sports organizations aren’t the only ones wrestling with high-profile Twitter account hijacks. An intruder compromised the account of well-known streamer Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) in mid-day on February 22nd, trying to use opportunity to rack up followers, start a beef with Fortnite star Tfue and complain when an account (possibly the perpetrator’s) was inevitably suspended. The attacker even tried to extort Ninja’s wife and business partner, Jessica Blevins, though this clearly wasn’t her first time dealing with a wannabe hacker — she said the intruder “lasted five minutes.”
Not surprisingly, Ninja wasn’t fazed either. Besides deleting the tweets, he posted a video (below) blasting an “irrelevant” person for grasping in vain for popularity. “Same script every time,” he said, suggesting this wasn’t a particularly sophisticated hijack.
The incident wasn’t the first for Ninja. In July of last year, scammers compromised his Instagram account and pushed bogus giveaways. This makes it clear that he’s a high-profile target, though, and underscores how it’s still relatively easy to deface accounts even when their owners likely take security seriously. Until social media accounts are airtight, you can expect similar attacks for a long while.
Hackers on twitter be like…
Seriously same script every time. We back pic.twitter.com/i9TUT1IRBW
— Ninja (@Ninja) February 22, 2020
Fkn idiots. Hacker DMs me “we can work this out. imessage me” You lasted FIVE minutes little fuck boy. Byeee
— Jessica Blevins (@JessicaBlevins) February 22, 2020
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