Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter
and Pinterest
accounts were hacked
over the weekend. A hacker group by the name of OurMine Team claimed to
have gained access to Zuckerberg's social media accounts via Twitter. The
group's Twitter account
has been suspended, for now.
Although the reports have not been able to verify the details as to how the group managed to hack Zuckerberg's accounts, OurMine Team claims the hack was made possible using the LinkedIn password dump that happened few weeks ago.
Although the reports have not been able to verify the details as to how the group managed to hack Zuckerberg's accounts, OurMine Team claims the hack was made possible using the LinkedIn password dump that happened few weeks ago.
For those unaware, LinkedIn last month said it is invalidating user accounts after noticing that a set of data including the email and hashed passwords of around 100 million users have been released. The password breach happened back in 2012.
It is likely that the leaked data included
the ID and password of the Facebook CEO's LinkedIn account and that Zuckerberg
used the same password for its other accounts as well. The password was
"dadada" as per the hacking
group.
OurMine Team even claimed to have gained
access to the Facebook CEO's Instagram account. However, Facebook later
confirmed that Zuckerberg's Instagram account was untouched. "No Facebook
systems or accounts were accessed," a Facebook spokesperson told
VentureBeat website in a statement. "The affected accounts have been
re-secured."
Recently it was reported that Facebook secretly recorded people's conversations without any proper disclosure. However, the social media giant later confirmed that the company does not hijack into the smartphone's microphone to display ads or to modify user's preferences in News Feed.
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