Zuckerberg gets Pwned
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/07/2016 05:36 AM
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The hacker group from Saudi Arabia, dubbed OurMine, used the data breached from LinkedIn to hack into Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts.
How did they do it? Pretty easy apparently because Zuck reused his LinkedIn password for his Twitter and Pinterest accounts. What was the password? Dadada.
Zuck could take some of his own advice and create a stronger password and not use it for other accounts.
Although it is denied, the group claims to have also breached his Instagram account.
The LinkedIn accounts totaled 167 million and were encrypted with the SHA1 algorithm with "no salt" that made it easier for hackers to crack them.
Source: The Hacker News
How did they do it? Pretty easy apparently because Zuck reused his LinkedIn password for his Twitter and Pinterest accounts. What was the password? Dadada. Zuck could take some of his own advice and create a stronger password and not use it for other accounts.
Although it is denied, the group claims to have also breached his Instagram account.
The LinkedIn accounts totaled 167 million and were encrypted with the SHA1 algorithm with "no salt" that made it easier for hackers to crack them.
Source: The Hacker News
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