By taking advantage of alarmingly relaxed security policies at apple and amazon hackers were able to breach honan s twitter google and icloud accounts.
Rise of hackers mat honan twitter.
The ultimate prize was his twitter account mat.
For the hackers a trophy.
They took over his twitter account.
The target of the attack was honan s twitter account but it could have been much worse.
And to keep this prize with just a few clicks they destroyed his digital life.
Apparently it all started when the hackers compromised the icloud account of mat honan a former gizmodo employee.
His iphone ipad and macbook were completely wiped.
My computer my iphone and.
They cleaned out his entire google account and gmail inbox.
Synthetic fraud schemes are on the rise thanks to the abundance of security breaches recently including.
According to honan that allowed them to take over his google and twitter accounts.