ACCOUNT
TAKEOVER
OBSERVATORY


REPORT : 2020 Q4

This report offers insight into large account takeovers trends that happened over the fourth quarter of 2020.

Findings

False positives


NOTES

askplaystation has payments fraud on 2020-12-14 and 2020-12-31.

spotify correlates with their end of year round up. Users realized their accounts were hijacked earlier in the year.

whatsapp has a bump in what looks like credit card fraud on 2020-11-09.

instagram a large bump on 2020-10-06 with accounts being locked out. Contact information changed to prevent users from regaining access. Not much else.


DATA

This is a total summary of all tweets meeting criteria.

This is a breakdown of totals per @mention which helps find outliers.


ANALYSIS

Links for manual analysis.