I'm wondering if these notices aren't phishing schemes. I'm hoping that when you go to change you password, that you are not following any links in the email but rather entering the site's address directly into your browser.

Twitter, I tried to open the app and got the message. I changed it there. Evernote, since I don't know what it is, I'm doing nothing.

Changing passwords periodically is a good idea anyway but remember there's a lot of Chicken Little activity on the internet right now. Even this site sent out some notices, not for any particular reason but just because of the smells in the air. Click on link below and note the comment by Houzz employee Emily H near the bottom

Houzz "security" messages and comments

Evernote partners with Twitter... evernote is sort of built into parts of twitters functionality.

You might want to see if you can sign into Evernote with your Twitter login/password.

I'm going to leave Evernote alone. I know I never had a account there. Why bother. I have no trouble getting on twitter.

There are many posts on Twitter with recipes and I do save some to my Iphone (notes). Wondering if that is risky? Never thought about it before and have been doing that on both Twitter and Facebook.

Thinking that saving links from those two places, on my phone could carry risk. I'm sort of at a loss how the phone works as I don't have any protection on it. Not sure if there is anything available for phones.

Thanks,

Jane

I'm 99% certain these are phishing schemes. Never click on a link in a message that says your account has been compromised. If you want to be on the safe side, you can go to the web site as you normally do, log in, and change your password. But never click on an email link involving hacked accounts. And, did I mention?: never click on one of those hot links... ;-)

Twitter wasn't. I went to their website and got the message that my account was locked until I changed my password.

The other one, Evernote, I didn't do anything with. I know I never had an account with them. I never heard of it.

This is the third time Twitter has locked my account over the past year. If it happens again, I will no longer use it. Not sure what the problem is but its making me nervous.

Jane

What do you mean by a 'hard password?'

Also, not sure how to contact Twitter:

Thanks,

Jane

A password that isn't "password" or "12345" and is sufficiently long, uses a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters. Steve Gibson has an excellent article on passwords and how to make ones that are difficult to crack but easy to remember here.

Twitter has a page on what to do if you suspect your account has been hacked here. And apparently there isn't always a good way to contact Twitter but you can start here.