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Zuckerberg's Twitter account gets hacked

Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Press Trust Of India
Last Updated : Jun 07 2016 | 12:57 AM IST
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked by a hacker group who claimed to have obtained passwords from his 2012 LinkedIn account, according to media reports.

The hacker group called 'OurMine Team', who have more than 40,000 Twitter followers wrote from Zuckerberg's Twitter page. "Hey @finkd, you were in Linkedin Database with the password 'dadada'", the team wrote from Zuckerberg's Twitter page. On his Pinterest, the new title was "Hacked by OurMine Team."

The group have claimed that the password leaked through a massive data breach on LinkedIn in 2012 with more than 164 million users' data stolen, The New York Daily news reported. Zuckerberg has not tweeted since 2012.In a deleted tweet, OurMine claimed it also breached Zuckerberg's Instagram - which Facebook owns - claiming it was "just testing your security".

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First Published: Jun 07 2016 | 12:06 AM IST

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