Twitter chief Jack Dorsey’s account hacked
11 Jul 2016
Following several celebrity Twitter handle hacks over the past few months, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey had his account compromised briefly on Saturday, according to a media report.
The hack was claimed by OurMine - the same group that claimed credit for compromising Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's and Google CEO Sundar Pichai's social media accounts, in a tweet.
"After the hackers posted a few benign video clips, a tweet went up at 2:50am ET saying 'Hey, its OurMine, we are testing your security' and linking to their website. That tweet was quickly deleted," technology website Engadget reported.
The message contained a link to a short clip on entertainment network Vine.
"All of the OurMine messages posted to Dorsey's account, came through from Vine," the report noted.
According to the report this might have become possible due to the fact that Dorsey had an old / shared password on his Vine account or somehow connected it to another service that was compromised, which could have given OurMine access.
When the Twitter link provided by the hackers is clicked it returns a message, "The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful."
According to commentators, the question remained as to how much power and influence the group had, considering the bizarre interactions with the group's members and what appeared to be fake screenshots purporting to be "evidence" of the group's alleged hacking prowess.
The hackers had in recent weeks claimed the social accounts of Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg last month, and more recently Google's Sundar Pichar as also Uber founder Travis Kalanick.
The three accounts were reportedly breached by different means. While, Zuckerberg's username and password were found in the massive LinkedIn data breach, Pichai's Quora account was reported to have been taken over at the question-and-answer screen at the site's password reset prompt, rather than a vulnerability in the site's platform as claimed by the hackers.
