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Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked (thestack.com)

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Saudi Arabian hacking group OurMine yesterday claimed responsibility for the defacement of Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, claiming additionally that the Facebook CEO re-used the very low-security password 'dadada' across the accounts. The hack was facilitated by the 2012 data breach of unsalted LinkedIn passwords, offered for sale by hacker 'peace' last month at an equivalent price in Bitcoin of approximately $2,200.The aforementioned group said to have hacked Zuckerberg's Instagram account as well, a claim that has since been refuted by a Facebook spokesperson. Zuckerberg's Google+ account remains intact if you're wondering.

99 comments

  1. oh shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's preposterous!1

    1. Re:oh shit by michelcolman · · Score: 1

      preposterous!1

      Don't post your passwords on Slashdot! Perhaps someone told you they will be replaced by asterisks, but that's not true!

    2. Re: oh shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1****6

      Seems to work for me.

    3. Re: oh shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      checked.

      have a nice night.

    4. Re: oh shit by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 2

      Really?

      ThisIsMySuperLongSecretPasswordThatNobodyCanGuessHorseBatteryStaple3

      What do you see?

    5. Re: oh shit by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      None of your business.

      And just for the record, my mom was a saint!

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    6. Re: oh shit by Dins · · Score: 1

      Nothing but asterisks.

    7. Re: oh shit by johnsnails · · Score: 1

      I thought you would have just reused your username for your password, has more entropy than that Horse XKCD password thing...

    8. Re:oh shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://bash.org/?244321

  2. Eh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Zuckerberg knows how much Facebook cares for its products, so it's not as if he's going to invest too much time in his account, is he?

    On the Information Superhighway, there are passengers and there are drivers...

  3. Zuck, meet pwgen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $ sudo apt-get install pwgen

    pwgen -y 16

    Or if your password can't handle symbols, omit the -y.

    Captcha: "repeated"

    1. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

      It is very obvious that zuck does not use linux .

    2. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by Flavianoep · · Score: 1

      but so, he will be unable to remember his passwords.

      --
      Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
    3. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by Flavianoep · · Score: 1

      And even if he used, he would go with Fedora.

      --
      Linux is for people who don't mind RTFM.
    4. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Guessing Zuck's password is too easy ... Merkel

    5. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by xtal · · Score: 2

      Password generators are stupid.

      Want an example of a great password?

      "password generators are stupid - >"

      Longer, at least for passwords, is better, and easier to remember.

      --
      ..don't panic
    6. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by richy+freeway · · Score: 1

      "Sorry, non alphanumeric characters and spaces are not supported in passwords"

    7. Re: Zuck, meet pwgen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This ^. I just use random phrases for each site. For slashdot my password is "why does everyone use dadada1?"

      Don't forget the quotes. They are apart of it.

      No but in all seriousness. I use phrases no one would guess.

    8. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by xtal · · Score: 1

      "thisisareallygoodpasswordtouseonfacebook" ..replace facebook with service name.

      Or whatever.

      --
      ..don't panic
    9. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you ponder it awhile, acronyms are the only good answer.

      Something like umbrella will get absolutely shattered by a dictionary table.

      umbr3lla will get pwnd on the next pass. Even something like i,nyr;;s (physical cipher, "right one") might get beat - these are ONE-HOP mods, fairly easy to remember because it's a single step but equally simple to feed into algorithms. You better fucking believe that one of the first mods crackers feed in is to capitalize the first letter and append a 1 (a single 2-0 in later passes).

      I assume (possibly naively) that correcthorsebatterystaple is safe for now, but it's basically a four-letter password to a dictionary table, and tech will muscle it's way to those. I'm sure two-value items like umbrellaexplosion already get done. Modern pseudo-AI has been happily chewing on Big Data to build lists like "what are the most common English words, phrases, sentences?" so while abstracts like CHBS might last, things like ilovemywifeverymuch might be weak once they start adapting Big Data uses.

      We need complexity gains WITHOUT adding to memory complexity. The status quo is already fucked up, making people use point-of-ultimate-failure software or shit like dadada. Capitalizing a letter and appending a number gained users almost nothing, yet surely slaughtered man-hours globally. Forcing in a "special character" may have a legitimate gain, but the burned hours multiplied, accounts and services were surely abandoned.

      Fortunately there IS a way to get extreme complexity easily: Acronyms. Things like ilmwvm might be weak for the Big Data reasons I described, but a personal twist will make them crazy strong. Say your child loves Spongebob and Bob the Builder: wliapcwfi is the result of "Who lives in a pineapple" and "Can we fix it". You could get by on wliap#2008 or some other means of personalization.

      That's what we should've been teaching for the last decade. That and a two or three tier system against re-use (money, criticals > shit you value > shit you DGAF). Instead I have a dozen mods to test every time a site says "lol wrong pw." even when I know for certain it's my low-level password. "Which random-ass rules did THEIR password module want?"

    10. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I assume (possibly naively) that correcthorsebatterystaple is safe for now, but it's basically a four-letter password to a dictionary table, [...]

      Very true, but these "four-letters" come from an alphabet of more than 27 letters. If you use /etc/words as a source you have 45k+ "letters" in the alphabet, so 4 tokens would mean 4100625000000000000 combinations whereas 4 letters in our regular alphabet would yield 8503056 if you use both upper and lower case letters.

      So correcthorsebatterystaple is still a pretty good path to go.

  4. I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I feel so very, very small. My passwords are better than that. My security is better than that. I know I have skills on various OSs, I can code in a dozen languages, I have bashed together many personal projects that worked... And yet Zuckerberg is successful and I am not. He his rich, and I am not. He has a family, and I never will. Not only I am too poor to afford it, but I could never even have a girlfriend. I'm too shy and awkward, and none of my technical savvy can help me when it comes to social skills. I have none. I would give all of that technical know-how just to be accepted. Just to be... One of those guys people like to have around. To be liked and loved. But this is never going to be. Goodbye.

    1. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      Don't do it!

    2. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "One of those guys people like to have around"

      Let's get it straight. You can be:
      1) Technically competent
      2) One of those guys people like to have around
      3) Zuckerberg

      I'd take 1, and 2 follows somewhat on its own. I'd say 3 is overrated.

    3. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would suggest reading 'fooled by randomness' by Nassim Taleb before getting too upset about all this. Should make you feel better.

    4. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I feel sorry for Mr. Zuckerberg's that his privacy was invaded without his consent. And that the attackers attempted to profit from his personal information.

      Snicker.

      Captcha: savored

    5. Re:I feel small by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      3 means you can buy 1 and 2, though...

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    6. Re:I feel small by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      No you don't. That's like saying you know how creamer works. Nobody does, and nobody feels bad about it.

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    7. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Social skills can be learned. There are some nice people out there who will let you practice social skills with them. For instance, if you post the above on a dating site, some will probably help out.

      Also, I used board gaming to get some social exposure, which helped me.

    8. Re:I feel small by Falos · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It turns out most circumstances are beyond our control. Effort, merit, integrity, these have influence but are absolutely dwarfed. When you hear "it's not what you know" that's not a fucking joke.

      Your social status, your career, your resilience and protections against bullshit and exploitation from outside (corporate, gov, etc) are largely determined by the time you draw your ovarian lottery ticket. Sometimes lightning and meteors pick suckers in an obvious manner, it's easy to recognize the universe at work there. Most of the time fate's grip is more subtle, yet still throttling. You can fight it, but to the insignificant level available to your influence. By definition not everysucker will come out well.

      It's ugly, but what can you do? It turns out that many Magic: The Gathering (insert luck game of choice) outcomes are determined before players even look at their opening hands. The performance is meaningless. All your skill and cunning and foresight and opponent-reading, meaningless against how the deck was stacked. Struggle all you want, only so much flex exists in the hand you were dealt. Pro play invests heavily in trying (to the degree possible) to repel the game's biggest threat - chance.

      I have no illusions about my blessings, or whatever you call them. I was lucky from the moment I was born first-world country; everyone in the Golden Billion was. I "work hard" and "earned" some stuff, but I know better than to credit my ego with everything in my life. Partly because I'm not a self-deluding arrogant fuckwit, partly because ego like that seems the sort of thing that tempts fate. God. Whatever.

      OT: Acronyms are the only safe future of passwords. Nursery rhyme becomes "rrrybgdts".

    9. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He won't read this. He's probably hanging from the ceiling right now, like that loser swartz. Or he's trying to tie a hangman's knot following instructions on wikipedia and sobbing and trembling all the time. He will botch it I'm sure. He'll lose the nerve at the last moment and try to get down the chair but he will stumble and the chair will fall from beneath him and he'll be left hanging. He will try to pull on the rope for dear life but years and years of neglecting physical training will mean his arms will be too weak. He'll be strangled slowly, losing the control of his bladder and bowels, pissing and crapping his pants. His eyes' blood vessels will burst and they will bulge out all bloodshot. His face will become a grotesque mask, distorted and purple. And so ends another loser.

    10. Re:I feel small by dj245 · · Score: 1

      I feel so very, very small. My passwords are better than that. My security is better than that. I know I have skills on various OSs, I can code in a dozen languages, I have bashed together many personal projects that worked... And yet Zuckerberg is successful and I am not. He his rich, and I am not. He has a family, and I never will. Not only I am too poor to afford it, but I could never even have a girlfriend. I'm too shy and awkward, and none of my technical savvy can help me when it comes to social skills. I have none. I would give all of that technical know-how just to be accepted. Just to be... One of those guys people like to have around. To be liked and loved. But this is never going to be. Goodbye.

      Were you born with technical ability? Do you think that social skills are an inate ability? We all have various handicaps that make learning some tasks easier than others, but technical and social skills are both learned. Tackling the biggest shortcomings in one's knowledge and persona is a lot more difficult than filling up on knowledge that comes easy. But I would argue that it is a lot more beneficial. You may never be a suave salesman, but improving your sales skills from "nonexistant / unworkable" to "marginal / passable" would likely benefit you immensely. Confidence and trustworthiness can be faked, and will get you at least halfway there.

      Taking an acting class may help also. The people I know who are well-known for being liked are just good salesmen and/or actors. Their real character is hidden and they put up a facade. The facade changes depending on who they are dealing with at the moment. The role they play is whatever the other person needs to in order to establish trust. I don't approach customers as dj245 anymore. dj245 himself was not adequate for some of the work that I have to do, so I invented some people who are. I examine the situation, determine what kind of character the customer expects and would be able to deal with the problem most effectively, and then I take on that character. I pretend to be something that I am not. Using real people (with the skills to do a good job) as inspiration for my characters is a useful tactic. Even though I am not that good of an actor, it seems to work. I am not limited to the meek and shy person I used to be. I am the sum of all the characters that I can play. None of them are the best in the industry, but they can get me through almost any situation.

      --
      Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
    11. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I feel so very, very small... I'm too shy and awkward... To be liked and loved...

      They're called man's best friend for a reason. Get a dog. Feed it, give it toys and/or play with it, and take it around the block every day and it will see you as the center of its world. It will give you a higher base to fall back on because it'll always have your back when you screw something up. Take it to the dog park and start meeting other people. Its ok if you have tons of social anxiety. You don't talk about you, you talk about the dogs. "Hey look at that one digging, my dog always/never does that." That'll slowly give you enough practice that you'll get better and more confident about talking about other things.

      Apartment doesn't let you have dogs and you can't move out? Volunteer at the local animal shelter. Can't make the long term commit of having a pet? Foster dogs instead. You hold on to a pet from the animal shelter until its adopted instead of letting it rot away in a shelter cage.

      Zuckerberg is successful

      You're confusing the meaning of successful. It doesn't mean smart, intelligent, happy, etc... If 10 people are thrown into a death pit and they all attack the person most threatening to them, the weakest and dumbest guy will be the last one standing simply because everyone else will kill each other off first. The idiot successfully 'battled' 9 people and won. Somehow now he's a super genius for defeating 9 bigger and stronger guys? Nope.

      Also, being poor only stops smart people from having kids. The poor have kids all the time. Watch Idiocracy, its basically a documentary on one of our likely futures.

    12. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Life isn't fair, nor was it ever reported to be.

      That said, you're looking in the wrong places. As someone who has always been socially awkard and tossed into the friendzone more often than I care to remember, I've also been married twice and have a kid.

      If anything, use this example to show you how even those absurdly rich and powerful people are just people... The fact that this "big brain" in silicon valley can use such a dumb password is pretty humbling for him, I'm s ure.

    13. Re:I feel small by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 1

      1 and 2 will periodically hack your account and sign you up for hedgehog porn though only #2 will bring beer and make a party of it.

    14. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      YEAH! Hedgehog porn party!

    15. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's like being offended at not winning the lottery, possibly after not even playing.

    16. Re:I feel small by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      It seems clear that you are yet another victim of the brainwashing that modern society (especially in the US) does to boys and young men, so like most males, you automatically but incorrectly value yourself only by your ability to earn money/usefulness to employers (i.e. employable skills).
      You need to instead learn to see the intrinsic value that just your existence actually has. Trust me its very much there, you just need help and the strength of will to undo the years of destructive social programming that you have already undergone to see it for yourself. Once you do, your life will massively improve. I know this because I was like you once.

    17. Re:I feel small by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      You can't actually. You can just buy people who will tell you to your face that you have 1 and 2 (and whatever else you want them to say), regardless of what they actually think.

    18. Re:I feel small by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      I wish I had mod points. +1 from me anyway.

    19. Re:I feel small by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      >> how creamer works.

      Apparently its something to do with some new mystical form of quantum entanglement where the coffee molecules are actually still black until you look at them. The EU are spending $100bn on building a new kind of detector under Swtzerland to answer this very question.

    20. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Do a flip!

    21. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ...but I could never even have a girlfriend. I'm too shy and awkward, and none of my technical savvy can help me when it comes to social skills. I have none. I would give all of that technical know-how just to be accepted. Just to be... One of those guys people like to have around. To be liked and loved..

      if this is for real, or resonates with anyone reading it:

      read 'the way of the superior man' by david deida, and check out sosuave.com. read, apply the lessons. when you achieve success, pass along to someone else.

      it. fucking. works. :)

    22. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Being good at communication and marketing is the real skill.

      If you've overlook that skill for others, you will always fail to live up to your potential, no matter how good you are at your profession or hobbies. People who talk a lot, generally have better lives.

    23. Re: I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Meanwhile the Zuck is still richer than you and I bet a whole lot happier. Why? Well, for starters he can have himself jetted to Monte Carlo and stay at the best hotels whenever he wants. Can you? I would argue he's vastly more succesful than you - and me - can ever hope to be. To people like us, making ends meet is a victory. People like the Zuck won't ever have to worry about that. He's a One Percenter, we're the unwashed dispossessed rabble.

    24. Re:I feel small by Aighearach · · Score: 2

      You should start visiting events he's speaking at and stand outside with a protest sign that just says, " dadada ."

    25. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      - Cormac McCarthy

    26. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now, now brother don't be so pessimistic. Plenty of girls out there with similar social skills. Very high probability that you might end up meeting one of them: the world is 50% women, roughly. If you're around people, they'll like having you around. Familiarity builds likability.

      About the money: yeah man, you're totally fucked. There simply is no way someone with your technical savvy could become rich or even moderately rich. Never heard of such a thing.

    27. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yes.. better lives at the expense of those who actually have shit to get done..

    28. Re:I feel small by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 1

      I feel so very, very small. My passwords are better than that. My security is better than that. I know I have skills on various OSs, I can code in a dozen languages, I have bashed together many personal projects that worked... And yet Zuckerberg is successful and I am not. He his rich, and I am not. He has a family, and I never will. Not only I am too poor to afford it, but I could never even have a girlfriend. I'm too shy and awkward, and none of my technical savvy can help me when it comes to social skills. I have none. I would give all of that technical know-how just to be accepted. Just to be... One of those guys people like to have around. To be liked and loved. But this is never going to be. Goodbye.

      There there, Mark, there there.

      (Yes, I literally believe Mark Zuckerberg is the AC that posted this.)

      --
      "Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
    29. Re:I feel small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have empathy for others; it will help you in understanding why you're not well liked.

      Practice. Everything takes practice, including social skills. Find a hobby that gets you out of the house (fly a kite, work on a car, go to a bar, learn a sport, hike, take your dog for a walk...DO SOMETHING).

      You control the direction of your life, so control it.

  5. Bitcoin by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

    The hack was facilitated by the 2012 data breach of unsalted LinkedIn passwords, offered for sale by hacker 'peace' last month at an equivalent price in Bitcoin of approximately $2,200.

    That value of $2,200 was on 2016-05-16 (1 BTC = USD$453.38) but today it's worth $2,838 (1 BTC = USD$585.00).

    I guess that's the hidden "Profit!" step everyone's been searching for.

  6. Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by Narcocide · · Score: 5, Informative

    As in "Da Da Da," by Trio?

    1. Re: Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, Casio keyboard ftw!

    2. Re:Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by michelcolman · · Score: 2

      I've got the same combination on my luggage!

    3. Re:Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by cyberchondriac · · Score: 1

      Or maybe it was that "The Police" song from the '80s. I'm sure he's changed to password now to "Do Do Do".

      --

      Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
    4. Re:Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by TheSouthernDandy · · Score: 1

      Crafty, leaving off the initial "De"! That's why Zuckerberg's making mad $$ while the rest of us are wasting time with password managers.

    5. Re:Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by Kyont · · Score: 1

      As in "Da Da Da," by Trio?

      Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh.

      --
      You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house.
    6. Re:Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by Narcocide · · Score: 1

      Facebook: It was right for you to run!

  7. m0D uP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    M$ is the evilz! alL hail teh 1 supreme goggle and kleenux!!1!

  8. No love for Google+ by ilsaloving · · Score: 4, Funny

    So a hacking group that that hacked several accounts for one of the biggest tech names in the world, but they can't be bothered to hack the Google+ account.

    Ouch. :)

    1. Re: No love for Google+ by slack_justyb · · Score: 2

      So is that what we call security through obscurity? Hey maybe Google can market that. "Google+ so unused, no one cares to hack your account."

    2. Re:No love for Google+ by Solandri · · Score: 1

      Maybe not. Google has been pushing 2 factor authentication pretty hard. If you don't have it set, you're frequently sent to a page suggesting you set it when you login (either an app or verification sent by text to your mobile phone or email to an alternate address). And they throw in freebies like an extra 1GB or 2GB of Google Drive space if you start using 2FA (or if you already are, for running a security check once a year). They also send you an automated email or text notice if a new device has been used to login to your account (successfully or unsuccessfully).

    3. Re:No love for Google+ by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Maybe they thought it was pointless since Google will probably close Google+ in a few months anyway.

    4. Re:No love for Google+ by Misagon · · Score: 1

      I would think that Zuckerberg hates Google+ so much that he does not have any account there.

      The account on Google+ named "Mark Zuckerberg" is an imposter. That is quite evident if you check the posts made from that account.

      --
      "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
    5. Re:No love for Google+ by ilsaloving · · Score: 1

      I'm sure you're right. I just thought it was an amusing notion that someone's system is so despised that even hackers refused to hack it. :)

    6. Re: No love for Google+ by valdezjuan · · Score: 1

      +1 from me if I had them!

  9. Hahahahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bahahahahahah Hahahahaha Hahahahahaha

    OK, I can breathe now

  10. Why Fedora? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe I missed the obvious, but why Fedora?

    1. Re:Why Fedora? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fedora is for people that wish to be as close to penis that giveth the systemd-piss-stream-of-bad-ideas as possible.

    2. Re:Why Fedora? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought Slashdot users renamed it to system====D ?

    3. Re:Why Fedora? by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      Fedora is for people that wish to be as close to penis that giveth the systemd-piss-stream-of-bad-ideas as possible.

      I try to stay close to my penis every day, but then again, I'm a Fedora user who appreciates the improvements that systemd offers over SysV init.

      People who think they love SysV crap should be all be rounded up and imprisoned at a University until they have a CS degree, at which point they should be sentenced to ten years of debugging futzy semaphores. And if they flunk out, they should instead be sentenced to 10 years of debugging loops in bash scripts that only use "libraries" common in SysV init scripts.

    4. Re:Why Fedora? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      systemdonglegate

      "not cool"

    5. Re:Why Fedora? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can't mod since i've commented , systemd could have been done better . + 1 for that anyways

  11. dadada? by Hartree · · Score: 4, Funny

    nyet,nyet,nyet!

    1. Re: dadada? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or the Treo song makes much more sense.

      Da Da Da
      I don't love you, you don't love me
      (Repeat)

    2. Re: dadada? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      De do do do, de da da da
      Is all I want to say to you
      De do do do, de da da da
      They're meaningless and all that's true

      - The Police

  12. Entirely consistent by LeadSongDog · · Score: 2

    1. Z's given up any expectation of privacy.
    2. He thinks you should too.
    3. Profit (for him)!!!

    --
    Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
    1. Re:Entirely consistent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't imagine being in Zuckerburg's position and having a single profile on any social media that represents both me personally and professionally. Either he doesn't really care about the accounts anyways for which there is no reason for a strong password or these are publically facing accounts again who cares to remember a strong password or even knows if they are Zuckerburg's or his social media PR consultant.

    2. Re:Entirely consistent by ShaunC · · Score: 1

      1. Z's given up any expectation of privacy.

      Except for the part where he bought up all of his neighbors' houses to keep anyone from being able to see into his.

      --
      Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
  13. Aaaarrrrgh! by tsqr · · Score: 1

    I sense a LOCKDOWN coming.

    1. Re:Aaaarrrrgh! by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Christ yes.

      Could we make it permanent and with him in the middle of it all so we never have to deal with the twat again?

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  14. It wuz h4xxy haxx0rz wif de h4xx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Code words for: We make noise but have no clue and less to say. Welp, saves me some reading. Next!

  15. But was a LockDown initiated? by MyJobSux · · Score: 0

    Probably not but why? Perhaps because he was in shock that someone would guess such a complexity of 2 repeating letters because he thought it was so simple it was absolutely brilliant. Or perhaps its because his treasured Google+ account was still safe because of the 2 factor authentication which gives him a warm fuzzy every time he receives a text on his phone...who knows...who cares...

  16. Executives with no password security? Shocked! by ErichTheRed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have worked in so many places where the most powerful executives in the company have had either no passwords or "dadada" style passwords. The interesting thing about this is that the execs who have access to the most secret information in the company are the ones who insist on the no-password policy.

    Not to go too far off topic, but this is why I'm not as concerned with the Clinton email scandal as most people. Everyone who's done IT work for executives know that executives break every single rule IT makes to make their lives easier. Whether it's no passwords, letting their staff use their accounts and log in for them, or running an email server in their basement, I've seen most of this. I've definitely seen the basement email server thing around the time the iPhone was becoming popular and Apple hadn't fully integrated Exchange support in yet.

    1. Re:Executives with no password security? Shocked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      fred was a very common password. Look at your keyboard and you will see why.

    2. Re:Executives with no password security? Shocked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The interesting thing about this is that the execs who have access to the most secret information in the company are the ones who insist on the no-password policy.

      This way, if they get caught leaking insider information or embezzling funds, they can blame it away on "hackers" accessing their account and then throw someone in IT under the bus.

      What do you mean I OK'd a $170,000 outbound transfer to Seychelles? I did no such thing! Hackers got into my computer! I've been telling the tech people for months that my account should be hacker proof!

    3. Re:Executives with no password security? Shocked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Rules are for peasants." dadada

  17. Zuckerturd needs to study this ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://ask.slashdot.org/story...

    Gems of wisdom inside, Zuck

    You gonna learn a lot from it

  18. No worries, Mark! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You never had any privacy anyway, so you've not lost anything you had to begin with. Privacy smivacy, who needs it, eh?

  19. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You own social network.

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      First clever one of these I've seen in years, well done!

  20. there really is a way to find peace and happiness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I feel small too. If I were feeling healthier right now I might be able to (log in and) write this bettter. But I also know that you and I both are literal children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to this earth for a time, for a purpose, which is to gain experience, to gain a physical body, and to practice at doing good and learn to make choices. My social skills aren't exactly consistently great. I have family and friends who are good to my anyway, and I wish to be good to them, and we all try, and sometimes we need to forgive ourselves and others, and sometimes we need to ask for forgiveness. Life is so extremely bigger than money or getting approval from others. But you are right that we all long for connection and love.

    Don't hurt yourself (or anyone else). There is so much good to be found among the pain that we all experience, if you know where to look. I have pain too, and I know life is hard, but it is extremely worth it.

    Please don't be offended when I suggest that you find the Mormon missionaries and ask them about true happiness. Remember that they are just fallible people, but the principles they can teach you come from one who is perfectly qualified to understand, and to keep His promises. I say it not because I get something in return, but because my many years of varied experience have shown me you really can find peace amid trials, and joy amid pain, and there is a reason for it all, that you can find out for yourself, so you know no matter what someone else says. The longer I live & the more I learn, the more grateful I am, and confident that you can find good things!
    Even if you at first have many questions, that is good. Ask them. And if you put it to the test, you'll find that no matter where you go, you have people who care about you. We are also expected to care about others (which is a great source of peace & joy in itself, especially when we choose to try to serve others and also understand the whole picture of where we came from, why we are here and where we are going).
    All the best to you!

  21. That's amazing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've got the same combination on my luggage.

  22. Re: there really is a way to find peace and happin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nah. Let him off himself, if he can ever summon the nerve to do it. One less socially deficient nurd to suffer. I can't stand those idiots.

  23. Aha by Trogre · · Score: 1

    I see what they did there. Was it a Trio of hackers perchance?

    --
    "Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
  24. Not a hack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They took a password hacked by a real hacker... and typed it into a login page. Sorry, not a hack.

    Okay, maybe in the sense of a "life hack," like "this one neat trick keeps water in your glass cold for many minutes!" (Spoiler: it's ice).