The starting of this week was very hectic for Google CEO Sunder Pichai. His Quora Account has been hacked by a group of hacked called Our Mine which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts earlier this month.
Pichai’s Quora account was connected with Twitter so they were able to spread the message to his 508,000 followers on Twitter about hacking his Quora Account.
Our Mine claims that it uses various exploits to pull passwords from celebrities’ browsers. They also confirm that they are not changing the account login details. They were checking the security breaches so they can offer their support to all those.
According to The Next Web, they are rebranding it as a Security Firm so they can provide their support so they can help them to prevent this kind of malicious attacks on people’s account.
They told The Next Web
It was only conducting a test:
“We are just testing people security (sic), we never change their passwords, we did it because there is other hackers can hack them and change everything.”
The group also noted that it managed to break into Pichai’s account by exploiting a vulnerability in Quora’s platform – one that it claims to have reported to the company, with no response.
Naturally, if you’re on Quora, you’ll want to change your password right away and make sure it isn’t the same as what you for other services.
