The same gathering of teenage hacker that hacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts have hacked another the Twitter record of another prominent individual.
This time, it's Twitter's ex-CEO, Dick Costolo.
The programmer bunch from Saudi Arabia, named OurMine, traded off Twitter record of previous Twitter CEO on Sunday and figured out how to post three tweets on Costolo's Twitter course of events, initially spotted by a Recode journalist.
However, the tweets seemed to be just simple-worded tweets with no disturbing content. It looked like the hacking group was testing its access to the account.
All the three tweets in question have since been deleted, and Costolo soon regained access to his account.
Moreover, Twitter also suspended the Twitter account belonging to
OurMine once again, after the company already suspended its original
account following the Zuckerberg hacks.
In the wake of recapturing access to his record, Costolo said that the group of hackers managed to figured out how to post on tweets on his course of events without straightforwardly trading off his Twitter profile.
Rather, the programmers accessed "an old record from another [third-party] administration that cross-presented on Twitter," the Twitter ex-CEO said.
The connections incorporated into the tweets demonstrates that programmers figured out how to get to Costolo's Pinterest record and afterward cross-presented on his Twitter course of events, however the gathering did not uncover how it got to Costolo's Pinterest account.
Despite the fact that the gathering already seized Zuckerberg record and now Twitter ex-CEO, it guaranteed that it hacks records to instruct individuals to better secure their records, as per screenshots of past OurMine tweets.
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