I advised the person to change the password and remove all the authorized apps for their account and sign in again on any that they still use. Probably good advice for everyone right now until we know what is going on.

Edit: false alarm. This was something the account holder did, not a take over. Cc @renchap - they connected to a rss feed that pushed ads. False alarm. As you were. Nothing to see here

Ohh, we just had an old account with 2FA (so password not reset) apparently hijacked and used to send spam (a different kind I hadn’t seen before). That is a good indication some service that uses auth tokens got hit. Now to figure out which

Honorary mastodon mascot at the zoo

Sounds right.

🚨🇧🇷 $470,000 shipment of RTX 5090 graphics cards goes missing at Brazilian airport

Brazilian technology distributor Oderço says two pallets of Zotac GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs disappeared after reportedly arriving at São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport.
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The company valued the shipment at R$2.5 million, approximately $470,000, based on its acquisition cost.

Oderço said it has sought information about the shipment but received no official explanation. The distributor described the incident as unprecedented in its 38-year history.
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The number of missing graphics cards remains unknown. No arrival date, tracking information or other shipment records have been made public.

Authorities have not confirmed that the shipment was stolen, and the circumstances of its disappearance remain unclear.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-shipment-worth-usd470-000-goes-missing-in-brazilian-airport-two-pallets-disappear-distributor-seeks-explanations-but-met-with-zero-answers

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