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“OurMine, the “Security” group hacking CEOS and Celebs”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Stephen Lam - RTX29NW9
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on stage during the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Stephen Lam – RTX29NW9

Last Sunday, a security group calling itself OurMine claimed to have compromise the Twitter and Quora accounts of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. OurMine posted messages reading “hacked” and “we are just testing your security” to Pichai’s half-million followers. Other accounts hacked by OurMine also included, VC Mark Suster, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg’s sister Randi Zuckerberg, Spotify founder Daniel Ek, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, and actor Channing Tatum. In a conversation with WIRED, an anonymous member of OurMine insisted that they are not blackhat hackers, and that they are just a security group trying to tell people that nobody is safe. Although OurMine offers in its website personal and enterprise security checks each at a different price, it also offers real security lessons free of charge, don’t reuse passwords between sites. For the full article, click here 

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