John Hanke is an American entrepreneur. Hanke is founder and CEO of Niantic, Inc., a company that creates experimental mobile, social, and local applications. The company is most widely known for its creation of Pokémon Go and Ingress.
It appears that he has had his Twitter account compromised. The twitter account began tweeting odd references to Quora and the hash tag #OurMine within the last hour. He is the latest victim in a long line of high-profile twitter attacks.On July 31, a series of Tweets was posted to Hanke's 16,000 followers. They were hashtagged "OurMine" and claimed the hack was for Brazil, where Pokemon Go has yet to be released.
Judging by a subsequent tweet that claimed his Twitter password was something as "nopass" which was very simple and obvious, that upgrade would involve little more than choosing a better password and maybe turning on two-factor authentication (though Twitter’s SMS-based authentication method leaves a lot to be desired). Interestingly, OurMine is a company that claims to assess social network account security, so the hack seems like a marketing stunt, directing users to upgrade account security. Nevertheless, over on the hashtag, the stunt has gained a reaction, including people in Brazil who think the hack is a poor way to get a point across, and players in other countries who object to the recent update to the game.
It’s the same "OurMine" hacker's group that targets high profile CEOs and celebrities. They've previously and successfully targeted YouTuber Markiplier and Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts. Twitter hacks are not uncommon. Earlier this year, developer Peter Molyneux's Twitter was breached, posting fake messages about retirement.
At time of posting it’s been over four hours since they got in and their tweets are still live on Hanke’s timeline.
Forbes staff writer Ryan Mac,who interviewed a member of OurMine. This member says that this attack was to test Hanke’s security, and also for “brazil & argentina & chile [sic]”. Mac also notes that OurMine targeted other social media accounts of Hanke, including his private Facebook and Foursquare accounts (possibly his Quora account, due to OurMine mentioning Quora in some of his tweets).
Published by Safiya Siddiqui
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