Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora Account has been  hacked  Pichai’s high-profile hack follows several such recent hacks  and Hacking group claiming credit is the one behind Zuckerberg’s hack The hack was reportedly possible due to a Quora vulnerability.

Alongside, the OurMine hacking team was able to publicise the fake Quora posts by tweeting them out of Pichai’s Twitter account , which was associated with the crowdsourced answer site. The team announced  the hack on its site on Monday, and said the Google CEO’s “security was really weak.”

Both Pichai’s Quora and Twitter accounts have since been cleaned up, with no evidence remaining of a breach – however, a screenshot of his defaced Twitter profile was shared by OurMine. In a statement to The Next Web, the team said it had gained access to Pichai’s Quora account by a vulnerability on theplatform. It said the vulnerability had been reported by Quora, but that the team had yet to get a response.

 

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