Twitter CEO’s Twitter Account Gets Hacked
It feels a bit ironic when you’re the CEO of a microblogging network and it’s your account that ends up getting hacked because you of all people should know better. This slightly embarrassing situation was faced by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after his official Twitter account was briefly compromised by hacking collective OurMine. This group of hackers has already compromised quite a few high-profile Twitter accounts recently but this is perhaps the most embarrassing yet for Twitter itself.
OurMine confirmed that it had been able to compromise Dorsey’s Twitter account by tweeting a link to its website though Dorsey’s account with the message: “testing your security.”
The group didn’t have control over the account for long. Shortly after the tweet was posted it was taken offline, and even though they kept sending out identical tweets they were rapidly being deleted.
