INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Facebook's social media accounts were temporarily taken over by a group of hackers on Friday afternoon.The hacking group OurMine posted on
the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and Messenger, writing "even Facebook is hackable".The accounts have now been
restored.OurMine claims its attacks are an attempt to show cyber vulnerabilities
In January it hijacked over a dozen accounts for teams in the US National Football League.The group posted a statement on Facebook's
Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security is better then Twitter."It also hijacked the Facebook and Massager accounts on
Instagram to post a photo of OurMine's logo.Facebook's own website was not hacked.Twitter confirmed that the hacking occurred via a
third-party and that accounts were locked once it was alerted to the issue."As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the
compromised accounts and are working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them," Twitter said in a statement.The attack on
Facebook seems to have followed a similar hack on teams in the National Football League
The accounts appear to have been accessed via the third-party platform Khoros.Khoros is a marketing platform that businesses can use to
manage their social media communications
Typically these platforms manage or have access to the passwords and login details of their customers
Khoros did not respond to a TheIndianSubcontinent request for comment.OurMine is a Dubai-based hacking group that attacked the accounts of
corporations and high-profile individuals in the past
In the past, it has temporality infiltrated the social media account of Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey, Google's chief executive Sundar
Pichai, and the corporate accounts of Netflix and ESPNThe group claims its attacks are designed to show a lack of security
But it also instructs victims to use its services to improve safeguards.
