Security News > 2020 > February > Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hijacked

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.

Well even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.

As with the recent OurMine attack on the US National Football League, it looks as if the tweets were posted via third-party marketing platform called Khoros that had access to the accounts.

Khoros hasn't officially admitted its involvement, but it has disabled access after what it described as a "Phishing attack that allowed a bad actor access to our platform." And mobile access to the platform remains suspended while Khoros works "To align the recent security enhancements to our platform with the app."

Until recently, the group had been quiet since 2017, having earlier successfully hijacked the Twitter accounts of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and even Twitter's own co-founder, Jack Dorsey.

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