Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora Account Was Hacked by Our Mine Hacker Group

Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox
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1 min readJun 27, 2016

Sundar Pichai’s Quora account was hacked by a group called “Our Mine” which hacked the Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts in this month. Our Mine group made several posts on Quora through Sundar Pichai’s account and Pichai’s account also connected with Twitter. As a result, all of messaging were broadcasted to over 508000 of his followers.

The hacker group said that they exploited a vulnerability of Quora’s platform. The following picture is Pichai’s twitter account status hacked by OurMine hacker group.

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According to the official website of Our Mine hacker group, it seems like they are making a brand in security firm and offers security related services. At this time, Quora and Google didn’t reply any responds.

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Si Thu Phyo
Newbiesbox

I’m a WordPress developer and trainer of Web Development Class at Myanmar Tech Wave. Founder of newbiesbox.com and love in writing and playing Kyokushin karate.