According to honan that allowed them to take over his google and twitter accounts.
Rise of hackers mat honan twitter.
They cleaned out his entire google account and gmail inbox.
My computer my iphone and.
Hackers gathered data from various sources to wreak online havoc.
The target of the attack was honan s twitter account but it could have been much worse.
The ultimate prize was his twitter account mat.
His iphone ipad and macbook were completely wiped.
And to keep this prize with just a few clicks they destroyed his digital life.
Earlier this week mat honan a senior writer for wired watched as his digital identity was taken from him and then systematically deleted by hackers who had cracked into his icloud account.
By taking advantage of alarmingly relaxed security policies at apple and amazon hackers were able to breach honan s twitter google and icloud accounts.
Apparently it all started when the hackers compromised the icloud account of mat honan a former gizmodo employee.
They took over his twitter account.