They cleaned out his entire google account and gmail inbox.
Rise of hackers mat honan twitter.
By taking advantage of alarmingly relaxed security policies at apple and amazon hackers were able to breach honan s twitter google and icloud accounts.
His iphone ipad and macbook were completely wiped.
My computer my iphone and.
They took over his twitter account.
For the hackers a trophy.
And to keep this prize with just a few clicks they destroyed his digital life.
Synthetic fraud schemes are on the rise thanks to the abundance of security breaches recently including.
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.
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.
According to honan that allowed them to take over his google and twitter accounts.