Mark Zuckerberg was hacked and his password was embarrassingly simple

“What’s worse, the hacker could implement automation techniques to continually outsmart security measures for long-term chat alterations”, said Oded Vanunu, head of Products Vulnerability Research at Check Point, said in a blog post.

The latest in the list of global celebrities who got their social accounts hacked are Mark Zuckerberg and Katy Perry.

“Mmmm, so my Twitter was hacked”. In a word: No. From other, older breaches of other sites and services, Coates believes – or from malware capable of stealing passwords. He recently became a father so guessing the password would not have been laborious.

Certainly, using a strong password – for any service – is a good recommendation.

On Sunday, OurTeam tweeted on the backup account, “i don’t understand why @twitter suspended our account while we are saving people from other hackers!”

If you look at most account hacks, you’ll notice a pattern: The hackers nearly never simply guess the password.

According to the Facebook official announcement, Zuckerberg himself states: “When I travel around the world, I like to hold Townhall Q&As with people in different countries…Now with Live I can hear from more of our community at once and it’s a lot more interactive. The affected accounts have been re-secured using best practices”, the statement read. If you do so, you are sending out an open invitation to the hackers.

Coates said that Twitter has been examining data from recent login data dumps and that it is, where necessary, forcing users to reset their passwords. As a result, a number of Twitter accounts were identified for extra protection.

And while we’re on the subject of social media, make sure you restrict posts to just your actual friends.

A compromised website not only puts your own data at risk, but also the data of users who are part of your website. It seems that the hack of his accounts was related to a LinkedIn report last May that over 100 million user passwords had been leaked.

Aside from addressing issues and upcoming developments for the platform, Zuckerberg generally allots time at each of these events to answer questions from users. The company said that the fake profile of Zuckerberg was about to create by the hackers and we took precautions in order to stop the false profile creating.

Security experts have warned for some time that using weak passwords and then reusing your passwords on multiple sites is just courting danger. Now it’s coming back to haunt them.