Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account hacked

The same group had previously hacked the social media accounts of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Chief Executive Officer, and also that of Sundar Pichai, the man at the helm for Google.

It might be possible due to the fact that Dorsey had an old/shared password on his Vine account or somehow connected it to another service that was compromised, which could have given “OurMine” access, the report said.

What’s even more surprising is that it was hackers going by the name “OurMine” that were behind all three breaches, in addition to recently gaining access into the social media accounts of Daniel Ek, Spotify’s CEO.

OurMine appears to have posted to Vine and then linked the posts to Twitter in order to get onto Dorsey’s main feed.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Vine account gets hacked and cross-posted to his Twitter account.

As with every previous hack carried out by OurMine, Twitter itself was not the source of the compromise.

OurMine has been hacking accounts of famous personalities but general users need to be careful as well.

OurMine team claims it is focused on security.

A later email, which ignored my follow-up questions, the group shared a link to a blog post that they had published, which claimed that Vine “can see your passwords”.

Costolo said on Twitter that hackers had accessed his account via a third-party application.

Our Vine administrator site is restricted to Twitter IPs, is HTTPs, and never shows passwords in any structure. This is the latest cyber attack against the high-profile personalities by hacker group “OurMine”.

Hackers have been quite active in recent months and have managed to hack accounts for popular celebrities and technology company heads. And considering that around 33 million Twitter passwords are reportedly being sold on the dark web, the time to rethink your security on your social media is nigh indeed.