Ask HN: Why would anyone want to hijack my HN account?

4 points by shashankp 6 years ago | 2 comments

Got a bunch of 'password reset' emails yesterday for this very account, I'm assuming they're malicious. What would anyone stand to gain any HN acct let alone my worthless acct?

throw03172019 6 years ago |

They want your 1 karma! Usually this happens when someone thinks that is their username and then they think the email is not being delivered so they keep trying.

1996 6 years ago |

Could simply be someone with the same name. Not many people in the US have my name but someone in another country does, and I see when they try to reset their iphone using my name for the apple account. They have the gmail address. We should trade accounts!