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"A day after details of Naoki Hiroshima's worryingly tale of being hacked emerged, and the Echofon developer still doesn't have his @N Twitter account back -- in fact, it has actually fallen into the hands of someone else, someone who is neither Hiroshima nor the hacker that repossessed it.\r\n\r\nTwitter locked down and removed the account as word of Hiroshima's story circulated, and it looked like he would get his account back soon -- though the fact that he willingly gave it is likely to have complicated things, as TechCrunch explains.\r\n\r\nThings took\u00A0a turn for the unexpected, however, when an opportunistic individual swooped to pick up the desirably short handle -- which Hiroshima says he was once offered $50,000 for -- once it was available, leaving Hiroshima understandably confused and frustrated.\r\nIt seems that Twitter simply ignored my claim and let somebody grab @N freely. Seriously?\r\n\r\n\u2014 Naoki Hiroshima (@N_is_stolen) January 30, 2014\r\nWe reached out to Twitter to get further clarification about what is going on.\r\n\r\nWe suspect that the company will sort things out once it realizes that yet another third-party is in possession of the handle, but the process is certainly a lot messier than it needed to be. It would certainly seem to be in Twitter's best interest to implement a system for this kind of situation -- particularly since others have spoken up about attempts made to hack their accounts.\r\n\r\nAs for the account itself -- it's not clear who the new owner is. It seems unlikely that it is the original hacker, but, at this point in this crazy story, anything seems possible.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHeadline image via\u00A0DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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