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		owenwil on Jan 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username Wow, this is both interesting and terrifying. I have a two character Twitter handle that I use actively and it makes me worry that one day I might be targeted too using a similar method, although so far I've had no problems.

andre on Jan 29, 2014 [–]

I have a two character twitter handle also, and am active on it. Used to receive several "reset" emails per day before two-factor authentication.

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