This time, it is Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe who had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday.
Iribe is the latest in the list of technology chief executives to have had their social media accounts hacked in recent weeks.
Recently, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter's ex-CEO Dick Costolo, and Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have all fallen victim to similar hacks
The hacker, who has not been identified yet, changed Iribe's cover photo and replaced his bio to "im not testing ya security im just having a laugh."
The hack got to be obvious when a tweet from Iribe Twitter record was made saying: "We here @Oculus are extremely eager to report our CEO. @Lid ! :)."
This tweet was trailed by another maxim:
"Envision making the coolest s*** to ever be acquainted with gaming and innovation yet utilizing the same go for a long time lol... senseless mr CEO!"
Every one of the tweets being referred to have subsequent to been expelled from Iribe's Twitter channel, and the record has now been reestablished.
The programmer later told Tech Crunch that he could get the hang on Iribe's Twitter account by utilizing his qualifications uncovered as a part of late MySpace information break.
LinkedIn and MySpace Database Uploaded to Torrent for Download
Autonomous British scientist Thomas White has now made more than 360 million passwords from 2013 MySpace information break accessible on his site.
This, as well as offering download joins for more than 167 Million certifications from 2012 LinkedIn information break.
Informal organization for expert LinkedIn was hacked in 2012, yet a programmer named Peace made the dataset of more than 167 Million messages and passwords, including 117 Million officially broke passwords, accessible available to be purchased on the secret business sector.
Myspace, an once-mainstream social networking site, was likewise hacked in 2013, however the same programmer made the database of more than 360 million clients accessible available to be purchased in an online programmer gathering.
As of not long ago, these a huge number of hacked certifications were accessible just to restricted gathering of people, yet with this discharge, anybody can download deluge joins offered by White and abuse the accreditations to hack more online records.
Be that as it may, White give this taking after clarification to legitimize his turn:
"Obviously, there is a danger," White told Jeremy Kirk. "Individuals will accordingly likely get a couple accounts traded off. In any case, once that happens, they will likely reset their passwords now and take in the lesson, instead of learn it in 12 months when they have five more records with the same secret key."?
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