Hijacked!

I attended a District meeting in Edmond this morning and when I got home found a few odd comments on my Facebook account. According to Facebook I had posted a link to a video from Twitter. This I had never done. I panicked. Someone or something had broken into my Twitter and or Facebook accounts and posted it! Facebook had already removed the link to the video.

I went over to Twitter and found my account had been suspended due to “suspicious activity.” No joke. But I was able to find the video. Thankfully, it could have been much, much worse. It was a video of car crashes and such set to some German Industrial music. Not patently offensive, yet nothing I watch and nothing I would normally link to.

How in the world did someone get in my Twitter account and post that link? Twitter says “some applications” have bugs that allow for such things. Count me out, man.

Look, there about a million ways I can mess up and ruin my reputation and loose my job and livlihood all by myself.  Pastors don’t need help in self-destruction. Most of us don’t. So it goes without saying that I do not need Twitter (or Facebook) allowing someone to hack in and post something truly god-awlful and offensive sometime and getting myself in a bad place.

So instead of everything I could be doing today, I’m going through and changing all my passwords. To everything. Sigh. And as fun as Twitter and Facebook have been, and how well connected to friends, family and parishioners I have been through it, I’m giving it a long hard second look.

UPDATE: I tried to login to my Twitter account to see if there was more I could learn, but apparently the robot or evil person has been trying to login with my old password and now my account is not just suspended, but locked. Sigh….

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