On the phone, Guy A. Lepage punctuates his anger with a few swear words. “It really is a estie shitty company,” he sums up. Since Friday, the most followed public figure in Quebec on Twitter no longer has access to his account.
Worse still, since Monday morning, a hacker has been using his name, and especially his “blue authentication hook”, to falsely sell ten autographed MacBook computers for $550, including delivery.
“I am angry, but above all I am extremely sorry for the people who are going to get caught up in this shenanigans,” explains the host, humorist and actor. With a pool of 483,000 subscribers, Internet users will necessarily fall for the trap, he believes.
SCREENSHOT FROM TWITTER
The spoofing of Guy A. Lepage’s account comes after reporters Aaron Derfel, of the Montreal Gazetteand Catherine Gauthier, of Radio-Canada, had also suffered identity theft on Twitter.
Almost three days after reporting the takeover of his account, Guy A. Lepage still cannot believe the “incompetence” of the blue bird. “There must have been a 10-minute game between the moment my account was hacked and my denunciation to Twitter on Friday at the end of the day. »
Rough answer from customer service: “We’ll get back to you in a few days. »
Wave of layoffs
Guy A. Lepage does not remember having done anything — for example, clicking on a link — that could have compromised his password. “I don’t feel like I did anything wrong. I find that I am very poorly served by a company that also thinks that it will charge me $11 per month”, the subscription price planned by Elon Musk to keep the blue hook.
According to my subscriber friends, there are already hundreds of people reporting the account. That should raise a red flag on any computer of someone who is vaguely competent. It doesn’t seem to be the case.
Guy A.Lepage
In early November, the contractor behind SpaceX and Tesla fired about half of Twitter employees worldwide. If the pilot of Everybody talks about it does not make a direct link between this bleeding and his situation, he continues to collect frustrations vis-à-vis the social network.
Isn’t he afraid of forever giving up his impressive network of subscribers, which makes many people jealous? Small silence: “Honestly, I don’t give a damn. I am completely disillusioned with Twitter. Not for the interesting people I’ve been around for 10 years, but for the kind of propaganda, for the threats — I’ve had a lot of people arrested. I am extremely poorly served, extremely disappointed with the service of this company. »
Whether or not he finds his crown, the king of Twitter risks being more discreet, if not coi. “When I lose trust in an institution, it is very hard to regain. I’m not fine on this. »