A hacker group called Ourmine, which has more than 40,000 Twitter followers, claimed responsibility. “The affected accounts have been re-secured”, a Facebook spokesperson told VentureBeat website in a statement. It appears that the Facebook founder may have used the same password across several accounts. Last week, singer Katy Perry’s Twitter account was hacked, with the her account sending out a message to rival Taylor Swift saying that she was “missing u baby”.
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Last month, security researcher Troy Hunt revealed over 164 million LinkedIn email addresses and passwords had been exposed from that breach.
According to Facebook, Zuckerberg’s Facebook account and password were not compromised and his account on Facebook-owned Instagram was also unaffected. It claims to have done it through the LinkedIn data breach. Users were warned at the time to change their passwords, and those on any other platform on which they were reused.
He doesn’t use his Twitter account much, so when a tweet went out Sunday, everyone noticed. The hackers claimed that Zuckerberg’s account details were among the 117 million passwords obtained in the 2012 LinkedIn breach. “We recommend people use a unique, strong password for Twitter”.
OurMine used the compromised accounts to post messages alerting Zuckerberg to the hack.
Twitter supports a two-factor account authentication, a feature that is still missing in Pinterest accounts.
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Prior to the hack, Mark Zuckerberg has been an inactive Twitter user since 2012.
