Naoki Hiroshima : How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

A story from Naoki Hiroshima, describing in detail how his online accounts were taken over via social engineering attacks at PayPal and GoDaddy.  To regain his domains, he gave away his Twitter handle (which was the ultimate target of the attacker(s) to get back access to his domain names

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username — Medium.

PayPal has responded :
https://www.paypal-forward.com/leadership/paypal-takes-your-security-seriously/