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Twitter Attacks: How to Alert Connections of a Social Network Hack

Twitter users were hit with a phishing scam that caught many off guard over the weekend. The ABCs of proper etiquette after a normal social networking scam are: Acknowledge the attack to anyone who might have been adversely impacted;. Be detailed: Tell them what message they might have received as a result of the malware/phishing. Don’t ever include a link in that apology; after all, it was clicking on a link that got folks in trouble in the first place. Instead of typing very brief generic messages when sending legitimate links, get in the habit of including some identifying info so that the recipient can tell that the human you really did intend to send it.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124922/twitter-attacks–how-to-alert-connections-of-a-social-network-hack.html

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