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Niantic CEO John Hanke’s Twitter Account Hacked

The latest victim of high-profile twitter attacks is the CEO of Pokemon Go developer Niantic, John Hanke. 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. . “Hey, it’s OurMine, don’t worry we are just testing your security,” read one Tweet. A series of other Tweets followed shortly after, one of which said “This hack for Brazil #POKEMONGOBRAZIL #PokemonGo4Brazil!?

 

 

OurMine has gained notoriety for hacking into the social media accounts of various technology executives, among them Google  CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

 

 

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