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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account hacked

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to have been the latest target of Ourmine, the group who claimed responsibi­lity for hacking into Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts earlier this month. The group made several posts to Pichai’s Twitter account, broadcast to his 5,08,000-plus followers, from his Quora account, and claimed to have hacked into both.

However, unlike the Zuckerberg hack, where entry was gained into his accounts using a password obtained from the massive leak of LinkedIn data, access to Pichai’s Quora account seems to have been via a vulnerabil­ity on the question-and-answer website’s end. Ourmine claims to have reported this vulnerabil­ity to Quora, with no response, according to The Next Web.

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