OurMine Hacked Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales’ Twitter Account 









Hacking aggregate OurMine has done it — once more. The programmers traded off Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' Twitter account Saturday, reports said.

A tweet was conveyed from Wales' checked Twitter account that read, "RIP Jimmy Wales, 1966 – 2016." The tweet quickly made waves internet with respect to the 50-year-old's whereabouts and whether something had truly transpired.

A couple of minutes after the fact another tweet was posted that read, "I confirm that Wikipedia is all lies, OurMine is the true " The tweet likewise contained a connection to a page with the OurMine logo promoting the gathering's government managed savings administrations. Notwithstanding the tweets, Wales' memoir on his Twitter profile was likewise changed to "hacked by OurMine."

OurMine has beforehand hacked the online networking records of a few essential identities including Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey. The gathering uncovered the casualties' feeble passwords and their records' poor security.


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The gathering said that they utilize such prominent hacks to publicize their "security administrations." truth be told, a part having a place with the hacking bunch demanded that it's simply advancing more grounded security, asserting that if the gathering didn't hack renowned records another person would. OurMine charges from $30 to $5,000 for its administrations.

The gathering additionally hit "Pokémon Go" login servers with a conveyed refusal of administration, or DDoS, assault a month ago that left players baffled and not able to sign into the amusement.

The tweets posted by the programmers were expelled later and Wales' history was altered. He likewise tweeted saying that he was fine.

However, minutes later a new tweet appeared that read "I confirm that Wikipedia is all lies, OurMine is the true," along with a link to a website displaying the group's logo and an ad for social media security services. In addition to the tweets, Wales' Twitter bio had been changed to read "hacked by OurMine."