Mark Zuckerberg is currently having a bad Monday. The Facebook founder briefly lost control of both his Twitter and Pinterest accounts this morning, after a hacker broke in to both, defacing the pages.
If the hacker, who went by the name OurMine, is to be believed, Zuckerberg’s weakness was in re-using passwords: they say they found his details in a database of 117 million passwords hacked from social network LinkedIn in 2012.
From there, they were able to gain access to his Twitter account, where they tweeted “you were in Linkedin Database … DM for proof”, and his Pinterest account, the name of which they changed to read “Hacked By OurMine Team”.
The hackers also claimed to have broken in to Zuckerberg’s account on (Facebook-owned) Instagram, but Facebook denies this happened, telling VentureBeat that : “No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed.”
Prior to the hack, Zuckerberg hadn’t tweeted from his Twitter account for four years. His last message on the service was a link to a now-deleted blogpost about SOPA, an American anti-piracy law, while the majority of his 19 tweets stem from a two month
period in early 2009.
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