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antdude
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"How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

»medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd from »hardforum.com/showthread ··· =1804038

PayPal and GoDaddy...

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Verge writeup

»www.theverge.com/2014/1/ ··· y-paypal

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Re: "How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

As most people said in comments..... Why on earth didn't this person immediately contact the police for extortion?

And yeah, I would be suing PayPal and GoDaddy.

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This didn’t work because the credit card information had already been changed by an attacker. In fact, all of my information had been changed. I had no way to prove I was the real owner of the domain name.

You'd think GoDaddy would keep a history of previous account information for situations like this!
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said by TheMG:

This didn’t work because the credit card information had already been changed by an attacker. In fact, all of my information had been changed. I had no way to prove I was the real owner of the domain name.

You'd think GoDaddy would keep a history of previous account information for situations like this!

That is sort of what I was thinking.
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The one thing I have a question on is do not use my own domain and google apps for anything more important than fun mail. Use just a throw away google or yahoo or whatever email? Then why bothering having my own domain? I guess I use one of the hackers preferred safe registrars though and not godaddy.

I know google apps hardly switches its domain very often but wouldn't an obnoxiously long ttl possibly have side effects at times?

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He got it back: »arstechnica.com/security ··· s-owner/

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said by TheMG:

You'd think GoDaddy would keep a history of previous account information for situations like this!

They might, but not at the customer service level I'm sure. Normally once you change an information field you cannot tell what used to be there.

Just more proof that social engineering is the easiest way to get something.