Google CEO Sundar Pichai joins long list of celebrities hacked by OurMine group
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#1JKNP)
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has become the latest celebrity to fall prey to hacking group OurMine Security, apparently due to a vulnerability in URL shortening service Bitly.
On Monday morning, Pichai tweeted the message: "Hey, it's OurMine,we are just testing your security, to upgrade your security please visit our website", and posted a similar statement to his Quora. It was deleted a few minutes later, but it put the CEO in the company of a number of other celebrities who've been hacked by the same group in the past few weeks.
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