Slipshod Security, Human Frailty Made @N Ripe for Plucking

GoDaddy reportedly has admitted one of its employees handed out customer information to a scammer who carried out a scheme to obtain a prime Twitter account. Naoki Hiroshima this week detailed how the scammer was able to force him to hand over his prime Twitter account, @N. The scammer used social engineering to accomplish his goal, obtaining Hiroshima's personal information to impersonate him. The scammer apparently was able to provide enough information to convince customer service representatives at PayPal and GoDaddy that he was Hiroshima.