Mark Zuckerberg has been hacked after failing to follow Facebook’s number one security tip.
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Ageing music-based social network MySpace was also hacked around the same time, and it’s likely that many users are still using the same login details for other accounts.
The week before, Katy Perry’s Twitter was taken over, with the hacker sending a message to the “Roar” singer’s rival Taylor Swift and releasing a never-before-heard song.
A hacker group named OurMineTeam had claimed that using the LinkedIn information, it had hacked Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts.
Zuckerberg’s accounts were compromised, a report from technology news website VentureBeat indicated, after data leaked from LinkedIn showed the executive used the simple password “dadada”.
A hacking group called Ourmine boasted about the security breach, posting a message on Zuckerberg’s personal Twitter account asking him to get in touch.
Zuckerberg’s hackers had also posted what they claimed was the password associated with his LinkedIn account.
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!”
OurMine claimed to have also hacked Zuckerberg’s Instagram account, a platform also owned by Facebook.
“Hey, we are just testing your security, please dm us for contact”, they wrote on Zuckerberg’s Pinterest page.
It was reported by various media outlets that his Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest accounts had been breached. 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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The group identified the password Zuckerberg used as “dadada”.
