Sundar Pichai's Quora account hacked

New York, June 27: The same team that earlier broke into Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts has now hacked into Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s account on the question-answer website Quora, media reports said on Monday. After breaching his account late on Sunday, the group called OurMine had posted messages on Quora through Pichai’s account. It is also connected to his Twitter account and as a result, OurMine was able to publicise their hack to all 508,000 of his followers, technology website The Next Web reported. OurMine appears to be in a hacking spree of top tech bosses this month. After taking credit for Zuckerberg’s social media accounts, it also compromised the Twitter account of the microblogging site’s co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams earlier this month. Spotify’s Daniel Ek was one of its targets too. It is not clear how the group is gaining access to their accounts, but it likely does not involve system breaches of the social networks their targets have accounts with. Instead, the group claims that it uses various exploits to pull passwords from celebrities’ browsers, the report said. (IANS)

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