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

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.

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I feel small

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:I feel small

[Falos]

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".

Executives with no password security? Shocked!

[ErichTheRed]

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.