How to Recover Your Hacked Twitter account?

What to do when your Twitter account gets hacked?

It is not always celebrities who end up being a victim of a Twitter hack. Sometimes even a nobody can get hacked. It is because hackers don’t always have the intention of exploiting an account to post random stuff, like some of them do with celebrity accounts. Sometimes they are just looking to get access to private information and sell it over to an organization at cheap rates. This is actually very common, and even big companies like Facebook are guilty of doing something like this. So what can you do once your account is compromised? How do you restore it?

If you can still log in:

• Change your password right away.
• Did Twitter account compromise? Make sure that the email address associated with your account has not changed. If the email is changed to the hacker’s liking, then changing the password won’t make a difference as the password can be changed again using the email address associated with the account.
• Revoke access to any third-party app that is associated with your account. Changing passwords does not change your account’s access by third-party apps, so you have to manually revoke the access once you log in to your account again.
• Setup the two-step verification, which, along with normal log, requires access through a mobile device too.
• Inform everyone affected about what happened to you and apologize. Ask them not to open any link sent out to them during the tenure when your account was hacked.

If you can’t log in:

If you are unable to log in, then try resetting your account’s password. However, there is a chance that your email address associated with that account is also changed. In that case, a password reset won’t be possible.

If your email and password, both have been changed then you have to fill out the Twitter hacked account form. To open up the form, click this link. Once you have filled up the form, wait for Twitter’s team to get back to you. Chances are you will get access to your account again.

Contact Support if you still require assistance

If you still can’t log in, contact us by submitting a Support request. Please choose the “Hacked account” from the list of options. Be sure to use the email address you associated with the hacked Twitter account; we’ll then send additional information and instructions to that email address. Include both your username and the date you last had access to your account.

Learn more about what you can do if you’ve lost access to the email account associated with your Twitter account.

Once you do get access to your account, make sure to take the precautionary measures in the future so that this does not happen ever again to you.