Thanks to the LinkedIn data breach!
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But the best kicker of all was Zuck’s password: “dadada”.
A hacker group called OurMine reportedly took over the billionaire’s Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest account on Sunday according to screengrabs of Tweets since removed from Zuckerberg’s accounts, which are rarely used by the Facebook mogul.
“No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed“. That’s embarrassing because it could be possible that Zuckerberg is using the same password for multiple accounts – a bad idea. “DM for proof”, according to a screenshot posted to Twitter. Twitter temporarily deactivated Zuckerberg’s Twitter account (which he barely uses, anyway), and then reactivated it with the suspect tweets deleted.
Twitter says a Twitter account used by the hackers to post messages was suspended. “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”. If you have a LinkedIn account and you haven’t reset your password since the beginning of time, well you should go and do it right away, because your’s could be the next in line to be targeted by hacker group’s like, OneMine. If users employed the same password across their online accounts, millions more accounts could be at risk.
Internet security experts suggest that users change their passwords often to keep accounts safe.
He said: “If Mr Social Media’s accounts can be compromised, with all of the knowledge and resources he and his team have available, we should all be taking notice”.
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If indeed the breaches were related to the recently leaked database of LinkedIn accounts that was stolen in 2012, they highlight why it’s important to use different passwords for different online accounts. “The simple fact is weak passwords are easily guessed and bypassed, and I believe we’re at a point where we, as consumers, all know that”.
