Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account hacked
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account has been hacked. Pichai’s account seems to have been hacked by the same hacker group who recently broke into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts.
The reportedly three-man hacker group called OurMine posted several messages on Pichai’s Quora account. Also, since the India-born Google CEO’s page is linked to his Twitter account, hackers could publicize the hack to all his 508,000 followers on the microblogging platform.
The tweets have now been removed.
The hacker group OurMine is believed to be aiming to rebrand itself as security firm. In the tweets informing Pichai’s Twitter followers about the hacking too, the group says, “Hey, it’s OurMine, we are just testing your security, please visit OurMine to upgrade it.”
The group told The Next Web website that it was only testing the security of all celebrity accounts it hacked into. “We are just testing people security (sic), we never change their passwords, we did it because there is other hackers can hack them and change everything,” the group told The Next Web. OneMine further told the website that it managed to break into Pichai’s account by exploiting a vulnerability in Quora that it claims to have previously reported to the company.
Earlier this month, OneMine hacked Twitter and Pinterest passwords of Zuckerberg. The hack had its origins in 2012’s LinkedIn data breach that had over 6 million passwords stolen. It is likely that the leaked data included the ID and passwords of the Facebook CEO’s LinkedIn account and that Zuckerberg used the same password for its other accounts as well. The password was “dadada” as per the hacking group.
OurMine Team even claimed to have gained access to the Facebook CEO’s Instagram account. However, Facebook later claimed that Zuckerberg’s Instagram account was untouched. “No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed,” a Facebook spokesperson told VentureBeat website in a statement.
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