Sundar Pichai did not start his week well. Google's CEO appears to be hit by a team called OurMine, which allegedly broke both Twitter's Twitter accounts and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest earlier this month.
So the hackers (three people) violated Sundar Pichai's account at Quora, which was also linked to his Twitter account.
The OurMine team immediately after the hack began to make public the violation of 508.000 followers of Google's CEO. Tweets have now been deleted, but there is a screenshot.
The OurMine team is targeting major executives of technology companies, such as Spotify's Daniel Ek. It's not clear how they manage to access the accounts, but they do not seem to violate social networks, except the accounts they target.
The group claims to use various expliots to intercept passwords from their victims' browsers.
OurMine allegedly calls itself a "security company" and offers its support to those who are targeted so as never to happen again. Of course, this is not the best way to gain the trust of your customers, but OurMine seems to be very entrepreneurial.
In a statement they made to TNW they said:
“We do security testing (sic), and we never change their codes. We did it because no other hacker can hack and change everything. "
The team also noted that it managed to breach Sundar Pichai's account with an exploit on the Quora platform - one that they claim has been reported to the company, and has not been interested.
Of course, if you use Quora, change your password immediately and make sure you do not use it in other services.
Dimitris hates Mondays...



