The leader executive of Facebook-owned virtual reality organization Oculus, Brendan Iribe, has become the modern-day in a string of organization bosses to have their social media accounts hacked.
The Oculus boss had his Twitter account compromised, however it is now restored.
Google’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg, Uber’s Travis Kalanick and Twitter’s Dick Costolo have all fallen sufferer to similar hacks.
Hacking institution OurMine has claimed obligation for many of those hacks.
It does no longer appear like in the back of the hacking of Mr Iribe’s Twitter page even though.
His account changed into compromised on 29 June, with the hacker announcing himself as the “new CEO” of Oculus and wondering why the chief executive at the back of “such cool generation” were using a 4–12 months–vintage password.
The hacker later instructed technology news website online Tech Crunch that he had accessed the password thru a MySpace breach.
Hundreds of hundreds of thousands of hacked account information from MySpace and Tumblr had been advertised on the market on-line in recent months even though the ones breaches have been several years ago.
Teenage hackers?
Hacking group OurMine has claimed duty for hacking the Twitter and Quora debts of Google leader executive Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter account, and people of Amazon’s chief technology officer Werner Vogels and Spotify founder Daniel Ek.
It changed into probably agencies which includes OurMine had were given their palms on passwords via “sifting thru statistics from mega-breaches including LinkedIn’s”, pc security consultant Graham Cluley said.
Social network LinkedIn was hacked in 2012. And, in May additionally, it emerged a facts set containing extra than 100 million participants‘ emails and passwords had been launched on-line.
“This records is out there and lots of people, no longer simply CEOs, are at hazard,” stated Mr Cluley.
OurMine told Tech Crunch it turned into a set of 3 teenage hackers wishing to promote higher safety practices.
but, in a number of its hacks, it has been linking to its internet site providing to scan the safety of social media bills for a price.
Mr Cluley counseled customers to follow fundamental password control, which includes:
having specific passwords for each account
enabling –component authentication wherein to be had
the use of both very robust passwords or a password control program
The reality some of the generation bosses had now not carried out this changed into unexpected, he said.
“If you are accountable for a huge employer, a hack like these goes to be embarrassing and there may be harm on your brand,” he said.
“Mark Zuckerberg is one of the maximum well-known geeks inside the world – he should recognize these things.”
It has emerged Mr Zuckerberg’s Twitter password became “dadada”.
