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We verified our domain on our profile as a few users suggested we do.
It appears our Snopes' X/Twitter account has just been hacked.
One of our staff was logged-in at the time and all of sudden got booted. We checked our email and noticed 3 just came in from X (first saying a new device logged-in then an email saying an authenticator app was added followed by an email saying our password was changed).
I immediately reset the password as our email was still tied to the account but we still couldn't login because it said we need to use the authenticator app which we didn't add. I also immediately submitted a request to X support saying our account may have been hacked.
Anything else we should do? This happened about 20 minutes ago. So far there are no weird posts on our account [x.com/snopes]. I'm hoping the hacker got booted when I submitted the password reset and request to X support immediately after being booted.
Our Snopes account was hacked on X (formerly twitter) and we got locked out for six weeks. We finally just got it back!
See the full story in the comments below for what we had to do to get someone/anyone at X to help us.
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https://mail.snopes.com/p/social-security-payments-texas-girl-chris-stapleton
We have been focusing on our newsletter over the past few months and I’m really surprised how good of engagement we are getting now. See the stats in the image below from a single email we sent last Saturday.
And here is the email we sent:
https://mail.snopes.com/p/trump-s-first-executive-orders-medicare-coverage-mississippi-lawmaker
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