Google’s Sundar Pichai has been hacked – which CEO will be next?

The group also tweeted from his account.

Despite effectively hacking into the online accounts of many high profile celebrities, actors and musicians including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Twitter CEOs Dick Costolo and Ev Williams and Channing Tatum – the group purports to be a “security firm”.

The hacker group called OurMine Team has been posting messages on Quora through Pichais account.

The hackers didn’t post profanities or a social message, but only short texts, as they seemed to be testing their access. As always, a longer password that includes a variety of characters is advantageous as it makes it harder for hackers to guess.

Neither OurMine nor Quora has elaborated on what the exploit is, so it’s probably best to err on the side of caution.

The same group was also responsible for hacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a few weeks ago.

An account belonging to Pichai on Quora, a question-and-answer social network, appeared to have been briefly hijacked on Sunday by OurMine. The team announced the hack on its site on Monday, and said the Google CEO’s “security was really weak”.

Last month, OneMine had used the leaked LinkedIn database dump to get access to Zuckerberg’s social media accounts and vandalize them. There are several password manager applications available online, in case you are facing trouble remembering multiple passwords, and many of these are free. Whether you consider hacking someone’s account and then charging them money to regain control over it to be extortion, the group hasn’t been arrested yet, despite the very deep pockets of the people they are targeting.

The hackers re-posted tweets through his Quora account, such as ‘is it possible to force my Android app users of all versions to update the app’. It claims its takeovers of people’s accounts are meant to test their security and promote its services.

According to The Next Web, the group accessed Pichai’s account by “exploiting a vulnerability in Quora’s platform”.