Hacked!!

My Twitter account got hacked.  I got Twitter in the early days of the Arab Spring.  I got it because I heard that it was a good way to stay current on news events.  I could never get it to connect to my phone and so that meant I had to actually be connected in order to receive any tweets, so I never used it.  I connected and followed some people, but mostly it was a waste of time.  

Last May 31, someone in South Korea hacked my Twitter account.  June 8th, a porn company purchased my twitter account and followed 1000 people and tweeted porn sites and pictures.  June 9th twenty people started following me and I had my first clue something was wrong.  I went home and changed my settings and changed my password.  Then I had to clean up my account and apologize to the friends who are real followers.  

My password was a level 2 password.  It was a non-standard word and had numbers in it.  Mark Zuckerburg's hacked accounts had the catchy password of lalala.  That is a level zero password, maybe a one, because who would suspect that savvy Facebook founder would have that password.  My hotmail account has a level four password a nonsense word with a personal algorithm substitution of letters and my internet banking password has a different password, nonsense word with a different algorithm substitution.  

Here are my levels of complexity:

0—common words.  password, mom, god, passwoord1, qwerty, 12345, 123456789.

1— uncommon words.  llama, beetlejuice ect.

2—adding numbers to the an uncommon word.  llama50, ll50ama

3— common words with 1337 5p334 substitutions or capitols.  passw0rd, Password.

4— substitution of letters completely with internally logical symbols, characters or numbers, so that you can remember the password and replicate it.  w<3<3dy for woody or better yet w<3<3Dy.

5— no rhyme or reason type password that you memorize and each password is unique for the account it is used for.  Sge3D6Sxdde972f2 or the like, you use every slot.

My password hint gives me two hints, it hints at the password and the algorithm I used to encript it.  And it is okay to lie on the hint.  

I changed my Twitter password, but not very much, but it is changed.