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Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Accounts get hacked.

A hacking group based in Saudi Arabia claims to have compromised the Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest accounts of Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg
The group known as OurMine claimed responsibility in a tweet that has since been removed that said they were “just testing” his security, and invited him to contact them.
Developer Ben Hall tweeted a screenshot of Zuckeberg’s hacked Pinterest account that appears to indicate the compromises were linked to the 2012 breach of the LinkedIn database. Initially, 6.5 million LinkedIn accounts were thought to have been compromised, but in May 2016 it emerged that 167 million LinkedIn account details, including 117 million username and password pairs were for sale on the dark web.
The hackers also appear to be implying that Zuckerberg had used the same password for multiple social media accounts, which is extremely poor security practice.
Security experts continually emphasis the importance of having unique passwords for every online account so that if there is a compromise of one account, no other accounts are affected.
• Make sure you construct a secure password. Do not make it easy to guess your password by using ‘password’, holiday, your own name Click on the link below which explains how to do that.  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Tips-for-creating-a-strong-password
• Do not use the same passwords in several situations, for logging into windows, running sage or accessing an authenticated website. This only makes it easy for hackers.
• If you haven’t changed your LinkedIn account password since you set it up – now might be a good time and whilst you are at it,  review your other sites and passwords.
If you are worried about security or if anything out of the ordinary appears on your PC or laptop, then please remove it from the network immediately and contact the service department on 01733 563900. Not only will it give you peace of mind but if you have been compromised the sooner we deal with it the less time it will take to resolve the situation.

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