Over the night the Twitter and Instagram accounts owned by Facebook have been compromised at the hands of a hacker group that has already taken control of the social media accounts of the television network in the past week ESPN and the NFL. Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts returned to normal in half an hour.
OurMine, this is the name of the hacker group, has published several posts on the Facebook Twitter account, all with the same message. The Verge website managed to take a screenshot of the posts before they were deleted. Even on Instagram the action was similar: multiple posts all the same and with the OurMine logo.
Twitter released an official statement stating that the compromise occurred using a third party platform. It was Twitter itself that blocked the compromised account and then collaborated with Facebook to restore it correctly.
OurMine in the past has already made other stunts of this mold, compromising the personal accounts of figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Doresy, Sundar Pichai and the HBO broadcaster but these were episodes dating back to at least 2017. Since then the OurMine group seemed to have ended its activity, until last week with the compromise of the ESPN and NFL accounts.
In any case, the methods of this hacker group seem to be relatively simple. The takeover of Facebook's Twitter account seems to have taken place through Khoros, a social media platform spread among digital marketing and PR realities.
