The Architecture of a Massive Turkish Phishing Attack that Hacked Me

On Jan 22, 3:25pm PST, my Twitter/X account was hacked in a Turkish phishing attack. The hacker had control of my account for about ~5hrs before X suspended my account. On Jan 28, 6:43PM, a whole 6 days later, I finally got my account back. I’ve been posting on X every day for nearly 5 years, so I’d be lying if I said the experience didn’t jolt me. I’m extremely thankful for my friends who…