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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.

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  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 U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 2

      Really?

      ThisIsMySuperLongSecretPasswordThatNobodyCanGuessHorseBatteryStaple3

      What do you see?

    3. 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.
    4. Re: oh shit by Dins · · Score: 1

      Nothing but asterisks.

    5. 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...

  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 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
    5. Re:Zuck, meet pwgen... by richy+freeway · · Score: 1

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

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

      "thisisareallygoodpasswordtouseonfacebook" ..replace facebook with service name.

      Or whatever.

      --
      ..don't panic
  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: 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

    4. 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.
    5. 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.
    6. 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".

    7. 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.
    8. 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.

    9. 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.

    10. 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.

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

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

    12. 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.

    13. 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 ."

    14. 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
  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 michelcolman · · Score: 2

      I've got the same combination on my luggage!

    2. 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.
    3. 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.

    4. 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.
    5. Re:Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht? by Narcocide · · Score: 1

      Facebook: It was right for you to run!

  7. 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!

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

    nyet,nyet,nyet!

  9. 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 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!
  10. 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.
  11. Re:Why Fedora? by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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

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

  15. 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