Hacker group OurMine said on Monday that it had gained access to the Twitter and Quora accounts of Google CEOSundar Pichai. The members were responsible for posting tweets to Pichai’s Twitter timeline before losingaccess.
And, because Pichai’s account was tied to his Twitter profile, the messages posted by the hackers on the question-and-answer site were also tweeted out to his more than 500,000 followers.
“We are just testing your security,”
OurMine wrote in a post to Pichai’s Quora account.
“Today, we checked Sundar Pichai Security, and we got access to his Twitter (and) Quora accounts,” OurMine, wrote in blog poston its website. “His security was reallyweak.”
OurMine told The Next Webits hacks of Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were not about causing trouble.“We never change their passwords, we did it because there [are] other hackers [who] can hack them and change everything,” OurMine said.
The hackers hit Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts early this month.
According to the hacking team, the breach of Zuckerberg’s accounts was made possible by the LinkedIn password dump last month. A set of data from a 2012 breach was released revealing the e-mail and hashed password combinations of more than 100 million LinkedIn members — and, apparently Zuckerberg’s data was part of the dump.
“You were in LinkedIn Database with password ‘dadada’,” the hackers posted via Zuckerberg’s @finkd Twitter account.
The Twitter accounts of movie star Channing Tatum and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, werealso recent targets of OurMine. The group posted screenshots as proof.
OurMine has vowed to target other high profile CEOs and celebrities as it continues its unusual publicity stunt.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account has been hacked by the same group which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts, according to a media report on Monday.
The hacker group called OurMine Team has been posting messages on Quora through Mr. Pichai’s account. The breach of his account became apparent when tweets linking to his Quora posts appeared on his official Twitter account on Sunday.The Indian-born Google CEO’s has 508,000 followers.
The hacker group initially wrote, ‘hacked’ using his account. “Hey it’s OurMine, we are just testing your security, please visit OurMine to upgrade it,” it said in later posts,The Vergereported.Mr. Pichai or perhaps his team, however regained control of the Quora account soon, and the tweets were deleted within few hours.
OurMine team claims it is focused on security. It brings out the security flaws in user’s account by hacking in to them. “We are just trying to let them know that nobody is safe,” OurMine told the online news portal Mic.
After taking credit for Mr. Zuckerberg’s social media accounts, it also compromised the Twitter account of the microblogging site’s co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams earlierthis month. Spotify’s Daniel Ek was one of its targets too.
It is not clear how the group is gaining access to their accounts. The group claims that it uses various exploits to pull passwords from celebrities’ browsers, the report said
The OurMine team
Mark Zuckerberg is not the only high profile tech boss to be hacked. Sundar Pichai’s name can now be added to the list.The Google CEO’s Quora account was accessed by a group of hackers, known as OurMine. |
| Sundar Pichai to be hacked |
And, because Pichai’s account was tied to his Twitter profile, the messages posted by the hackers on the question-and-answer site were also tweeted out to his more than 500,000 followers.
“We are just testing your security,”
“Today, we checked Sundar Pichai Security, and we got access to his Twitter (and) Quora accounts,” OurMine, wrote in blog poston its website. “His security was reallyweak.”
OurMine told The Next Webits hacks of Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were not about causing trouble.“We never change their passwords, we did it because there [are] other hackers [who] can hack them and change everything,” OurMine said.
The hackers hit Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts early this month.
According to the hacking team, the breach of Zuckerberg’s accounts was made possible by the LinkedIn password dump last month. A set of data from a 2012 breach was released revealing the e-mail and hashed password combinations of more than 100 million LinkedIn members — and, apparently Zuckerberg’s data was part of the dump.
“You were in LinkedIn Database with password ‘dadada’,” the hackers posted via Zuckerberg’s @finkd Twitter account.
The Twitter accounts of movie star Channing Tatum and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, werealso recent targets of OurMine. The group posted screenshots as proof.
OurMine has vowed to target other high profile CEOs and celebrities as it continues its unusual publicity stunt.
Ref : The hindu
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account has been hacked by the same group which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts, according to a media report on Monday.
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| Google CEO Sundar Pichai |
The hacker group called OurMine Team has been posting messages on Quora through Mr. Pichai’s account. The breach of his account became apparent when tweets linking to his Quora posts appeared on his official Twitter account on Sunday.The Indian-born Google CEO’s has 508,000 followers.
The hacker group initially wrote, ‘hacked’ using his account. “Hey it’s OurMine, we are just testing your security, please visit OurMine to upgrade it,” it said in later posts,The Vergereported.Mr. Pichai or perhaps his team, however regained control of the Quora account soon, and the tweets were deleted within few hours.
OurMine team claims it is focused on security. It brings out the security flaws in user’s account by hacking in to them. “We are just trying to let them know that nobody is safe,” OurMine told the online news portal Mic.
After taking credit for Mr. Zuckerberg’s social media accounts, it also compromised the Twitter account of the microblogging site’s co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams earlierthis month. Spotify’s Daniel Ek was one of its targets too.
It is not clear how the group is gaining access to their accounts. The group claims that it uses various exploits to pull passwords from celebrities’ browsers, the report said