Users should take this opportunity and set different passwords on their social media accounts.
Advertisement
According to reports, the accounts of the man who heads up the world’s biggest social network have been hacked on a number of social media sites including Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn.
And apparently Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is just as lax as the rest of us in actually following that advice.
On Pinterest, his new title was “Hacked by OurMine Team”.
In tweets now unavailable, the hackers also bragged about hacking Zuckerberg’s Instagram account, but nobody was able to verify their claim.
Hackers claimed the “dadada” password leaked through a massive data breach on LinkedIn in May, with more than 164 million users’ data stolen.
Twitter was the first to react, taking down Zuckerberg’s profile, deleting the tweet, and then suspending the hackers’ account in the end.
We don’t know for sure how OurMine Team pulled off the hacks, but the group is claiming it was all thanks to the LinkedIn password dump from a few weeks ago.
For now, Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest account seems to be restored.
Advertisement
Upon publishing, Twitter had already brought it back, with the offending tweet deleted (Zuckerberg hasn’t tweeted anything since January 2012). But, at the time of writing, the proof of the act appears to have been removed from the microblogging site and the account associated too has been suspended.
