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by Zenst 4516 days ago
Fair play for GoDaddy addressing this issue, though I do wonder if the issue was not as vocalised publicly how ling it would of taken to address. We may never know, and it changes nothing in the past.

What I don't know is how this effects the original user who lost there @N twitter account.

    Did he get it back?
    Had GoDaddy now respectfuly owning up to there oversight made any offer to restore things and/or compensation?
So far so good, but still missing the happy ending we all want to see for the user.
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JAFTEM 4516 days ago
He hasn't gotten it back, but the attacker is no longer in possession of that handle having deleted the account. The handle was then apparently unavailable to take [0], but some time later Twitter allowed some random user to pick up the handle as you can see by visiting @N now.

[0] https://twitter.com/N_is_stolen/statuses/428679789491138560

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Zenst 4516 days ago
Seems ball in Twitters court now.

Nice update from GoDaddy linked there: http://uk.godaddy.com/news/article/godaddy-statement-re-n-is...

Much respect to GoDaddy, certianly handerling it well and being honest and upfront.

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