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Hackers Hack Google CEO Sundar Pichai

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Hackers hack Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account.

Hackers are now targeting CEO’s of billion dollar companies. Just last week by hackers and photos revealed how Zuckerberg prevents himself from cyber eavesdroppers. Now, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, is the latest CEO to get hacked.

According to reports, hackers break into Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account. A hacker group briefly took over the Quora account of the CEO, which also enabled them to post on his Twitter.

“We are just testing your security,” the hackers tweeted from Pichai’s account, pointing to a post on Quora they’ve created. Both accounts have since been restored to normal, but The Next Web managed to obtain a .

In case you didn’t know, Quora is a Q&A community launched in 2010 and has 100 million monthly unique visitors as of March 2016.

The hacker group, Ourmine, appears to be the same group that recently took control of Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts. But while Zuckerberg’s credentials were apparently found in the recent LinkedIn password dump, the method of hacking Pichai’s Quora account was different. In a response to The Next Web, the hackers said they have actually exploited a vulnerability in Quora’s platform. A vulnerability Quora has not yet fixed.

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