Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora Account Hacked

It wasn’t long ago that a hacker group briefly took control of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Pinterest accounts. The dust had barely settled on that incident when we found out earlier today that Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account was hacked which enabled the hackers to also post on his Twitter. It’s a bit embarrassing when people tasked with running services billions of people use get hacked like any normal user would.

The hacker group tweeted “We are just testing your security,” by creating a post on Quora which automatically posted it to the Google CEO’s Twitter account. Hackers only had control of the account for a brief period of time as it has since been restored.

OurMine appears to be the group behind this hack, it’s believed to be the same group that took control of Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts, Zuckerberg’s login credentials were reportedly found in the recent LinkedIn password leak.

The Next Web had a word with the group and they say this hack wasn’t made possible by Pichai’s leaked credentials. They actually exploited a vulnerability in Quora’s platform which they say the Q&A community hasn’t fixed yet.

If you are extra paranoid about online security perhaps you can take this incident as an excuse to update your Quora password. Also keep in mind that it’s healthy online behavior to use multiple passwords for different services instead of using one password for all services.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Web
Tags: Google, Quora