“Lucky225,” a security researcher who took over Adrian Lamo’s accounts after his death, explains what he saw happen to Adrian’s account during the Twitter attack of high-profile Twitter accounts:
I didn’t want to write about this but I see a lot of people getting the details wrong — that includes myself — due to a lot of speculation. I’m going to give a short timeline on what happened exactly. At about 3:30 PM Mountain time I started hearing about the hack as several people were submitting screenshots to the 2600 Facebook Group.
Some folks may not be aware but since Adrian’s passing, with permission and blessing from his father Mario I have controlled the majority of Adrian’s online accounts. I checked to see if Adrian Lamo’s old twitter account @6 may have been breached as part of this attack. Sure enough my Twitter app showed that I had been logged out “due to an error.”
I logged into one of Adrian Lamo’s email accounts which also happens to be one that his Google Voice number was tied to, and sure enough there was a password reset notification sent via SMS to his Google Voice number:
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