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Hackers break the security of Google's CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora Account

A hacker group has briefly overtaken the Quora account of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, which account also enabled the hackers to post on Sundar Pichai's Twitter Account.

Sundar Pichai is not going to have a happy start to his week. The CEO of Google’s Sundar Pichai's Quora account appears to have been hacked by a group called OurMine, which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts earlier this month.

Sundar Pichai's Quora account is also connected to his Twitter account and as a result, OurMine was able to publicize their hack to all 508,000 of his followers. The tweets have now been removed, but we’ve got a screenshot.

Sundar Pichai's Twitter Account

The hacker group, OurMine, appears to be the same one who recently tool control of Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts. But while Zuckerberg's credentials were apparently found in the recent Linkedin Password Dump the method of hacking Pichai's Quora account was different. In a response to The Next Web, the hackers said they have actually exploited a vulnerability in Quora's platform — one that Quora hasn't yet fixed.

We've contacted Quora about these claims, but have not yet heard from them. As a precaution, we recommend you change your Quora password, disconnect your account from any other services it might be connected to (such as Facebook and Twitter), and make sure you don't use it on any other online services.

OurMine, which has an official Website ( https://ourmine.org/ ) that positions the group as a security firm, also said they are never going to change people's passwords, and that all they are doing their "testing" people's security. While their methods are shady to say they least, they've definitely been successful in taking control of some high profile social accounts, their recent targets including Twitter co-founder Evan Williams as well as musicians DeadMan5 and David Guetta.

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Referenced From : - www.mashable.com

Monday, June 27, 2016

Hackers break the security of Google's CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora Account

A hacker group has briefly overtaken the Quora account of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, which account also enabled the hackers to post on Sundar Pichai's Twitter Account.

Sundar Pichai is not going to have a happy start to his week. The CEO of Google’s Sundar Pichai's Quora account appears to have been hacked by a group called OurMine, which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts earlier this month.

Sundar Pichai's Quora account is also connected to his Twitter account and as a result, OurMine was able to publicize their hack to all 508,000 of his followers. The tweets have now been removed, but we’ve got a screenshot.