Though Zuckerberg had two social media accounts compromised, his Facebook page remained unaffected. “Yesterday, we became aware of an additional set of data that had just been released that claims to be email and hashed password combinations of more than 100 million LinkedIn members from that same theft in 2012”. On his Pinterest, the new title was “Hacked by OurMine Team”. The group is now posting on Twitter via a backup account.
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Zuckerberg’s Facebook account remains intact though.
A hacking group called OurMine claimed to have been behind the attack on Zuckerberg.
Security experts warn, your security can be compromised at any time, especially when sticking to one password across the board.
The billionaire was reportedly hacked after cyberscammers found out his password from a recent mass cyberhack. The password was supposedly ‘dadada’.
Use a password manager: It can be challenging (or almost impossible) to remember unique passwords for each account, so consumers should consider using a password manager like Norton Identity Safe that stores your passwords in a secure, cloud-based vault. Back then LinkedIn had stored passwords as unsalted SHA-1 hashes, enabling hundreds of thousands to be quickly cracked – and leaving a massive insecurity legacy by providing hackers with huge amounts of real-world password data to improve their password-cracking abilities.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg briefly lost control of both his Twitter and Pinterest accounts this morning.
“Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t tweet much – in fact, he hasn’t used that social network, in many ways a competitor to his Facebook, in four years. So when an unusual message appeared on his account Sunday, people took notice”, according to a news report published by Mashable. They also claimed to have accessed his Pinterest account (which appears to be correct) and his Instagram account, which doesn’t appear to be the case. “Thousands of Twitter users were tricked into thinking Jack Black had died, thanks to a sick prank by one of the hackers”.
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Last month, LinkedIn acknowledged that a 2012 data theft may have affected far more users than originally thought. Still, if you want that extra layer of safety, Symantec recommends randomly generated passwords, and two-step verification services, such as pin numbers sent to your phone.
