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The three companies were Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/?p=54338

I genuinely don't know. The hacker said it wasn't personal. My guess is that I was a waypoint to get to Gizmodo.

They're rabid. But I think it's kind of an interesting side note at this point.

Hi, I'm Mat Honan (the guy who was hacked). I've been in touch with the person who hacked my account. He says it wasn't brute force, or guessed. I'll publish more when I know more.

To be clear, the password was unique. I use 1password as a password manager and even double checked to make sure that I wasn't using it anywhere else.

We tried to make this fun. Some of the hidden features that I think are pretty cool include the way you can bypass the nagwall with the Konami code, and, of course, the nagwhal: http://two.longshotmag.com/404