Journalists are getting hacker warnings from Google

Greg P. | 10:50 AM on November 23, 2016

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/801434477977280513

What’s amazing about this story isn’t that Google is warning journalists about hackers trying to access their email accounts but that after everything that’s happened with WikiLeaks, they still don’t have two-factor authentication or other security features enabled on their accounts!

Anyway, the list of journalists getting these notices from Google is growing by the day.

Politico’s Julia Ioffe:

And here we are. pic.twitter.com/Vv4cjLI5gJ

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) November 23, 2016

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait:

I had the same message yesterday. @paulkrugman too.

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 23, 2016

Keith Olbermann:

1) ICYMI my email carrier notified me of a possible government-based attempt to hack me. Then @paulkrugman was notified. Then @jack hacked.

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 23, 2016

New York Times’ Paul Krugman:

By the way, in the middle of this I got a warning from Google to set up 2-factor auth because of indications of possible hacking!

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 23, 2016

Former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett: