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Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, possibly due to an awfully weak password

posted onJune 6, 2016
by l33tdawg

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't tweet much — in fact, he hasn't used that social network, in many ways a competitor to his Facebook, in four years. So when an unusual message appeared on his account Sunday, people took notice.

As it turns out, it wasn't Zuckerberg doing the tweeting — it was a notorious hacker group called OurMine, who briefly gained access to his Twitter and Pinterest profiles.

Hackers posted "proof" of their deed by tweeting from Zuckerberg's Twitter account, and changing the title of his Pinterest page to "Hacked By OurMine Team," with the message in the description saying "we are just testing your security." At the time of this writing, both accounts appear to have been returned to their owners, and offending tweets/posts are deleted.

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