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Mark Zuckerberg And Multiple Celebrities Try To Recover From Twitter Attacks
Brian McNeill
First Posted: Jun 08, 2016 05:00 AM EDT
A number of top personalities that includes Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Black and Kylie Jenner lead the list of unfortunate victims of hacked social media accounts recently, ramping up calls for celebrities to change their passwords to stronger ones.
Hackers are at it again, preying on the Twitter accounts of top personalities that include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as popular celebrities like Jack Black, Kylie Jenner and Keith Richards.
Though the development is nothing new in this era, the intent isn't out of the ordinary and meant to harm the credibility of well-known people.
The accounts of Mark Zuckerberg on LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter were hacked in what is believed to be tied up with a LinkedIn data leak that occurred back in 2012.
A report from Fox411 claims that his password was a ‘dumb’ one and hackers believed Zuckerberg was using the same password across different accounts. Following the hacks, Mark Zuckerberg’s team announced that the Facebook CEO has changed his passwords since.
On the part of celebrity Jack Black, his account was connected to his band (“Tenacious D”) and eventually cleared up rumors that the actor was dead.
Kylie Jenner saw her Twitter account hacked over the weekend where the compromised account sent out hateful tweets, all of which have already been removed. Jenner claimed that she ‘didn’t care’ and that she was allowing them (hackers) have fun.
"I love being famous with no talent," the hacker posted to the 18-year-old reality star's account. "Well my sex tape with Tyga was trash."
But even if that were the case for Jenner, computer security expert Graham Cluley cautions that the attacks may have been worse.
“Well you may not care, but what about your 16 million followers on Twitter?” he said in the video. “Don’t you think you should care about them? Because if your account had been hacked Kylie, then potentially those users could have clicked on a link and gone somewhere malicious, maybe they could have had their password fished,” Cluley elaborated.
The fact of the matter is that hackers will continue to do their dirty work and there is no telling who will be the next target. Celebrities and personalities are at the top of the list but even the low profile ones may also be hit.
Though Twitter has been the medium affected to date, everyone is reminded to follow the practice of using stronger and unique passwords for their online accounts and use different ones to avoid such inconvenience.
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First Posted: Jun 08, 2016 05:00 AM EDT
A number of top personalities that includes Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Black and Kylie Jenner lead the list of unfortunate victims of hacked social media accounts recently, ramping up calls for celebrities to change their passwords to stronger ones.
Hackers are at it again, preying on the Twitter accounts of top personalities that include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as popular celebrities like Jack Black, Kylie Jenner and Keith Richards.
Though the development is nothing new in this era, the intent isn't out of the ordinary and meant to harm the credibility of well-known people.
The accounts of Mark Zuckerberg on LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter were hacked in what is believed to be tied up with a LinkedIn data leak that occurred back in 2012.
A report from Fox411 claims that his password was a ‘dumb’ one and hackers believed Zuckerberg was using the same password across different accounts. Following the hacks, Mark Zuckerberg’s team announced that the Facebook CEO has changed his passwords since.
On the part of celebrity Jack Black, his account was connected to his band (“Tenacious D”) and eventually cleared up rumors that the actor was dead.
Kylie Jenner saw her Twitter account hacked over the weekend where the compromised account sent out hateful tweets, all of which have already been removed. Jenner claimed that she ‘didn’t care’ and that she was allowing them (hackers) have fun.
"I love being famous with no talent," the hacker posted to the 18-year-old reality star's account. "Well my sex tape with Tyga was trash."
But even if that were the case for Jenner, computer security expert Graham Cluley cautions that the attacks may have been worse.
“Well you may not care, but what about your 16 million followers on Twitter?” he said in the video. “Don’t you think you should care about them? Because if your account had been hacked Kylie, then potentially those users could have clicked on a link and gone somewhere malicious, maybe they could have had their password fished,” Cluley elaborated.
The fact of the matter is that hackers will continue to do their dirty work and there is no telling who will be the next target. Celebrities and personalities are at the top of the list but even the low profile ones may also be hit.
Though Twitter has been the medium affected to date, everyone is reminded to follow the practice of using stronger and unique passwords for their online accounts and use different ones to avoid such inconvenience.
See Now: NASA's Juno Spacecraft's Rendezvous With Jupiter's Mammoth Cyclone