Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts HACKED by a group claiming it used this VERY simple password
Media mogul's simple password left two of his social media profile's extremely vulnerable after hackers paid for his details
FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg has been hacked on two of his social media accounts after his easy password left them vulnerable.
The tech genius’s Pinterest and Twitter accounts were attacked on Sunday by cyber group OurMine.
According to the hackers, the computer whizz set both his passwords as “dadada”.
The billionaire had recently become a father.
His daughter Maxima, or Max, was born in December 2015.
The hackers had supposedly found the passwords in a massive pile of data from LinkedIn.
Over 160 million stolen passwords were from 2012 and were put on sale to the general public just last month.
The group tweeted Zuckerberg from his own account, saying: “you were in Linkedin Database … DM for proof”.
His Pinterest page’s name was changed to “Hacked By OurMine Team”.
A screengrab of the media mogul’s account seemed to show that he had set his passwords to “dadada” on Pinterest and Twitter.
The screenshots were posted by Twitter user Ben Hall.
He said: “Ouch. Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts have been hacked."
OurMine also claimed to have hacked Zuckerberg’s Instagram account, but the Facebook owned company have not yet confirmed this.
A spokesman for Facebook said: "No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed. The affected accounts have been re-secured."
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The passwords were leaked onto the dark web, where hackers could pay to obtain them.
Recently, another hacker said that he had obtained 117 million account passwords, which are now for sale.
The hacker, who goes by the alias ‘Peace’ is charging over £1,500 for the information.
Twitter responded to the crisis by banning the group on Twitter.
OurMine have also claimed to have hacked other celebrity accounts, including the YouTube account of vlogger Markiplier.
Before their account was suspended, the group regularly asked their followers to pick who they would target next.
The group, believed to be based in Saudi Arabia, also hacked the SoundCloud account of musician Deadmau5.
Media Mogul Zuckerberg boasts 700,000 followers on Twitter and 13,000 on Pinterest.
But the Facebook founder hasn’t used his Twitter account since 2009.
His last tweet was sent in January 2012, linking users to a blogpost about an American anti-piracy law.
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