Everyone should now be already aware of what happened to Wired senior writer Mat Honan. A hacker clan wanted to take control of his @mat Twitter account simply because it only has three letters and in the process managed to break into his Apple, Amazon, Twitter, and Google accounts as well as Gizmodo’s Twitter account thanks to the different processes in how the services handle user password retrieval, the details of which are spelled out in Honan’s account of the events as well as here. Honan is a former writer for Gizmodo.

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