How Not to Get Locked Out of Your X Account

Hardware MFA issues on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
4 min readFeb 27, 2024

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I was not on Twitter (oops X) for a few days because I got locked out of my account. No, my account was not compromised. No, I did not post something to get put in social media jail. I did it to myself in the name of security. I could call it a self-imposed denial of service attack…

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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