Daily US Times: The group which is responsible for hacking official Twitter accounts for the Olympics and FC Barcelona, said ‘everything is hackable’. For years, the same group has been responsible for hacking other prominent Twitter accounts.
The group called OurMine is responsible for Saturday’s hacking, confirmed by Twitter. A spokesperson of Twitter said that both the Olympics and FC Barcelona accounts were hacked by OurMine and through a “third-party platform.”
“As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised accounts and are working closely with our partners to restore them,” the spokesperson said.
International Olympic Committee also confirmed an ongoing investigation about a potential breach into some of its social accounts. Later is Saturday, FC Barcelona confirmed the hacking by a tweet from its official account.
The giant football club said it will conduct a cybersecurity audit to find out how the hacking happened and will review all protocols and links with third-party tools in order to prevent such incidents further.
The tweets which were posted and quickly deleted, OurMine claimed credits for that.
The group tweeted from the Olympics Twitter account read: ”Hi, we are OurMine. Everything is hackable.” The tweet which later deleted linked to an email address and the group’s website, urging users to contact the group to “improve your accounts security.”
The FC Barcelona account hack was a bit more nefarious in that it claimed in another since-deleted tweet to have read private message indicating that former Barca superstar Neymar is heading back to them.
“Well, we read some private messages and it looks like Neymar will back here,” the tweet read. The tweet quickly removed but users took screenshots and it’s now traveling across the social network.
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