Ninja hacked Twitter account: "Always the same script"

Account compromise Twitter high profile, a problem that does not only concern large companies, but all those who somehow have a large number of followers and can in some way be considered "celebrities", perhaps even just from the web.

This is the case, for example, of the well-known streamer Ninja, at the registry office Tyler Blevins, who in recent days has seen the Twitter account compromised by an individual who at least apparently did so for futile reasons: grabbing followers, triggering a squabble with the star of Fortnite TFEU and then complaining when a Twitter account – probably his own – was suspended. The hacker also fielded a clumsy extortion attempt against Jessica Blevins, wife and business partner of Ninja, which however had no consequences.

However, Ninja and his wife were not surprised at what happened. The streamer later released a video where he defined the individual as "irrelevant and looking for popularity". "The same script every time" he then wrote on Twitter, thus suggesting that episodes of this kind have already happened and probably all share in unsophisticated attempts. In July of last year Ninja was the victim of a compromise on the Instagram account, at the hands of someone who published posts containing fake giveaways and giveaways.

The story allows us to understand how relatively simple it is to implement compromising and defacing operations of a social media account even when the owner puts the right consideration towards security issues: large social platforms probably have to do more to help users, even those less aware, to have a safer experience.