Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account hacked by OurMine

Sundar Pichai regained control of his Quora account soon and the tweets were deleted within few hours.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account is the latest victim, when it comes to hacking of social media accounts belonging to top Silicon Valley executives.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account is the latest victim, when it comes to hacking of social media accounts belonging to top Silicon Valley executives. Pichai and the Quora hacking take place a month after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked by OurMine Team, which is also responsible for the latest hack.

OurMine Team posted a series of tweets late Sunday night linking to Pichai’s Quara posts and referencing itself. This is when the breach came to light. The group didn’t really hack Pichai’s Twitter account and used Quora’s auto-re-tweeting feature to post tweets.

The hacker group initially wrote, ‘hacked’ using the Google CEO’s account. “Hey it’s OurMine, we are just testing your security, please visit OurMine to upgrade it,” it said in later posts. Pichai or perhaps his team, however regained control of the Quora account soon, and the tweets were deleted within few hours.

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OurMine team claims it is focused on security. It brings out the security flaws in user’s account by hacking in to them. “We are just trying to let them know that nobody is safe,” OurMine told Mic. OurMine also has a security check-up plan for social media accounts that people can sign up for $5,000 per scan. The team, in turn tells them whether their accounts are hackable.

Zuckerberg became a target of OurMine Team last month, when his Twitter and Pinterest passwords were hacked. The group had hacked the Twitter account of Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek.

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