Sundar Pichai - twitter account hacked (or not :) )

[DardiM]

The team of hackers OurMine has struck again. After the former CEO of Twitter, the current boss of Spotify or that of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, it is the turn of Sundar Pichai, the head of Google, to have his Twitter account 'hacked' .
The OurMine team go through a third-party service, those to which users give permission to publish on their Twitter accounts. This time, it's Quora service which is at issue.

 

[Ink]

Helpful Links:
Connecting or revoking third-party applications | Twitter Support
My account has been compromised | Twitter Support

I would recommend regularly reviewing your Twitter Connected Apps at least once a month.

More News: Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora account has been hacked

Update: OurMine told TNW that it was only conducting a test:

“We are just testing people security (sic), we never change their passwords, we did it because there is other hackers can hack them and change everything.”​

The group also noted that it managed to break into Pichai’s account by exploiting a vulnerability in Quora’s platform – one that it claims to have reported to the company, with no response.

Naturally, if you’re on Quora, you’ll want to change your password right away and make sure it isn’t the same as what you for other services.

Update II: Quora told TNW in a statement that it doesn’t believe a vulnerability on its platform led to Pichai’s account being broken into:

We are confident that Sundar Pichai’s account was not accessed via a vulnerability in Quora’s systems. This is consistent with past reports where OurMine exploited previous password leaks on other services to gain access to accounts on Twitter or Facebook. We also have no record of a report by OurMine pointing to a vulnerability. We recommend that people use unique passwords for accounts on different services, so that a security breach on one service does not lead to attackers gaining access to accounts on other services. Safeguarding our users is very important to us, which makes security at Quora one of our highest priorities.

OurMine claim it's a Quora vulnerability, but Quora are saying otherwise...