Mark Zuckerberg – Mr. Social Media himself – has been the victim of account hijacking.
A hacking group took over the Facebook CEO’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts over the weekend, claiming to have found his (apparently reused!) password by sifting through last month’s
password dump of stolen LinkedIn accounts.
That password: “dadada.”
Somebody or somebodies using the name OurMine boasted about the alleged account takeovers, claiming to have found the “dadada” password in the LinkedIn dataset.
That’s bad enough. But they also claimed to have taken over his Instagram account.
An Instagram account hijacking would have been very embarrassing indeed, given that Facebook owns the photo-sharing a pp.
But on Sunday night, a company spokesman told
Sky News and other news outlets that only Zuckerberg’s Pinterest and Twitter accounts had in fact been taken over:
No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed. The affected accounts have been re-secured.
