Last Friday, in full glare of the world, Facebook admins suddenly found themselves in an unseemly struggle to wrestle back control of the company’s Twitter accounts from attackers that had defaced them.
Normally, these accounts trumpet new platform features or other assorted worthy accomplishments. But on Friday afternoon, a different type of tweet suddenly appeared:
Hi, we are OurMine
Well even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.
The now deleted message continues by offering the services of OurMine to anyone wanting to improve their account security.
The same group’s logo also appeared on Facebook’s Instagram account:
Facebook’s Instagram account also hacked into by OurMine.
Bad Times.
It reportedly took the admins around 30 minutes to retake control of the feed, with one observer recording how messages from the hijackers were posted, deleted, and reposted several times before Facebook’s admins gained the upper hand.