Article 1X3RH BuzzFeed hacked by OurMine after it claimed to unmask one of its members

BuzzFeed hacked by OurMine after it claimed to unmask one of its members

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Nicky Woolf
from Technology | The Guardian on (#1X3RH)

Previous high-profile hacks by the secretive group include Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Poki(C)mon Go's servers

BuzzFeed was hacked by OurMine on Wednesday in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to unmask one of the members of the secretive group.

On Tuesday, BuzzFeed posted a story claiming to have identified one of the members of the group as a Saudi teen called Ahmad Makki. In response, on Wednesday the hackers managed to breach BuzzFeed with a post, which has since been taken down, that read:

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