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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest and Twitter s Hacked

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest and Twitter s Hacked 6m3d3f

By Abhinav Lal | Updated: 9 June 2016 14:22 IST

Highlights

The high-profile hack is a grim reminder for security best practices.
Zuckerberg's Pinterest and Twitter s were briefly defaced.
Hackers claimed to have obtained his credentials via a LinkedIn leak.

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Now is a great time to change your LinkedIn . You may recall the recent fallout from the company's revealed that many more s had been affected than previously reported - 117 million credentials were feared to have been leaked, as opposed to 6.5 million. 6u5o27

Why now, you may ask. Well, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest and Twitter s were hacked, and a hacking group claims to have found his credentials in the leaked LinkedIn cache. Hacking group OurMine Team boasted of its exploits via Zuckerberg's own Pinterest and Twitter s. While the offending posts have now been removed, and the OurMine Team Twitter has been suspended as well, screenshots remain.

Ouch. Mark Zuckerberg's social media s have been hacked pic.twitter.com/KvVmXOIg5s
-- Ben Hall (@Ben_Hall) June 5, 2016

The hacking group had also claimed to have hacked Zuckerberg's Instagram , which may have been very embarrassing for the Facebook CEO if true - Facebook owns Instagram after all. However, a Facebook spokesperson refuted the Instagram hack to VentureBeat, saying, "No Facebook systems or s were accessed. The affected s have been re-secured."

The entire incident only serves to emphasise the importance of online security best practices, simple ones that can go a long way in preventing misuse of our numerous s. While using a reputed manager may be the best, most convenient answer, s should utilise a strong (better than the notorious '' or their dog's name), change their s frequently, and assign different s to different s - most especially their central email ID that's associated with other s, including banking.

It's clear that Mark Zuckerberg didn't follow these practices, at least for his non-Facebook s, and evidently hackers haven't (yet) gained access to his banking s - which would have been a real coup knowing the size of Zuckerberg's bank balance. The high-profile hack serves as a significant wake-up call for everyone out there, from those who may have been affected by the 2012 breach to those who use the same s for years and across s.

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