Ensure you use a particularly strong password with both characters and numbers for your email account.
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The company said the hackers attempted to create a false profile for Zuckerberg. “This will significantly reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your accounts”, Shaw concludes.
How his account was able to be hacked hasn’t been made public, however a spate of massive data breaches at companies including LinkedIn has recently given hackers a wealth of password data to work with. The team also briefly commandeered Zuckerberg’s Pinterest account, which has just a few boards and pins. The account which was earlier found suspended has since being resurrected while the particular tweet boasting the hack has also been deleted.
Zuckerberg’s account was quickly restored on Sunday. His Facebook password must be a little better protected since that’s his most active account and it didn’t get compromised in this hack, so let this be an example to us all of the very real importance of a solid password.
That’s the password that the Facebook chief was apparently using not just for his LinkedIn account, but for his other online accounts as well. Considering Zuckerberg hasn’t tweeted since 2012 (and even then, only sparingly), it’s likely he completely forgot about the account and its ill-conceived password, and the fact that he’d reused it. Luckily, Zuckerberg must employ a more robust password on his Facebook account.
It seems the Facebook CEO is as guilty as the rest of us at re-using passwords.
OurMine have also claimed to have hacked other celebrity accounts, including the YouTube account of vlogger Markiplier.
Believed to originate within Saudi Arabia, OurMine has cuts its teeth on small ventures, often taking down semi-popular figures on the internet and niche chatrooms. Though LinkedIn is working to invalidate the passwords, username and password combinations have already been exposed.
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