Thelma, via email A In most cases, hackers will be after your username and password.
Diplo marked the occasion by changing his Twitter username to CATEGORY 6 PLURICANE.
Later that day a username Contribsx was created and his first act was to contact these three Wikipedians to assure them he would be taking a "neutral point of view" over Shapps' page.
If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address.
If you log-in to our sites using a twitter log-in, we receive your avatar (the small picture that appears next to your tweets) and twitter username.
It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.
In about 1998, someone with the username "napster" revealed to those present in an internet chatroom that he'd been working on a piece of software to fix the problem.
We recognise these stories might sensitive so if you'd like to submit something anonymously, we suggest setting up an account with a username that is different from your own, and make sure you turn your location data off.
Sometimes being anonymous is a good thing (and of course you still have that option) but if you want to add a name to your profile (might be first name, real name or what you might like to be known as) it can help others to treat you as a real person, and not just a weird username.
A: If you see an avatar which you think infringes copyright or is otherwise unsuitable, but which may have slipped through, you can alert the moderation team by clicking the "report abuse" link on each user's profile (which you can get to by clicking on their username link).
You can sign up for an account for free and then share the username and password with your group.
