By katerinaramm on Skatehive
I thought I had seen it all in the social space, but apparently there is always more and we should not be surprised because anything is possible. It is more than 3 days now that specific accounts that I know the persons behind them, are compromised on X - a number of users have reported them, the account owners are trying to get their accounts back and I am left wondering.. WHY, WHY ... Does X not lock the accounts so that they do not send dms until the situation is settled? What kind of safety system is this? I understand that most of the time, when an account gets compromised, usually the user has clicked a link (or similar) - but when this is brought to the attention of X (OR ANY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA) - should they not have blocked the account in question? When my LinkedIn account was compromised, a few months back - I had contacted LinkedIn - verified my identity and then the other person was locked out immediately. It took a while till I got back my account, but until I did, my foll