Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts have been hacked, and last month’s huge LinkedIn password dump being considered the reason behind this high profile security breach.
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Messages were sent to Zuckerberg and from his own account claiming to be from OurMine – who said they were “just testing [his] security”.
While the hackers claimed that they have also infiltrated Zuckerberg’s Instagram and Facebook accounts, the company released a statement denying the same.
Yes, the 32-year-old Facebook founder, worth $51.2 billion, had a couple of social media accounts compromised by reusing “dadada”, which is a fitting password for the new dad.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pinterest account also showed a message from the hackers. The hackers say they could because of LinkedIn’s 2012 data leak, which came to light in recent weeks when the networking site realized another hacker was trying to sell account details for more than 100 million users.
The group also hacked into his Pinterest account which has since been restored.
On Sunday, OurTeam tweeted on the backup account, “i don’t understand why @twitter suspended our account while we are saving people from other hackers!”
Kylie Jenner’s Twitter account was hacked over the weekend, as was Keith Richards’, Mark Zuckerberg’s and Jack Black’s. Again, using the same password for multiple accounts is a cardinal sin in the security world, so make sure you mix it up, even with accounts you rarely use.
Looks like the accounts are back in Zuckerberg’s control now, though. Almost three-quarters of consumers use duplicate passwords for their online accounts, according to a report issued last summer by Telesign.
More than 167 Million members’ email and password combinations were hacked during a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and had just been posted online.
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Zuckerberg’s name is synonymous with Facebook, but the billionaire has several accounts on rival social networks, including one registered with Google Inc.
