{"id":4219,"date":"2016-06-09T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/09\/twitter-cofounder-gets-his-twitter-account-hacked\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T00:18:19","slug":"twitter-cofounder-gets-his-twitter-account-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/09\/twitter-cofounder-gets-his-twitter-account-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter cofounder gets his Twitter account hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f110923%2fev_\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/folLHLeyW_Tvl-8M31VJJmzmJMU=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F110923%2Fev_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Twitter+cofounder+gets+his+Twitter+account+hacked&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F08%2Fev-williams-twitter-hacked%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F08%2Fev-williams-twitter-hacked%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This is getting out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Ev Williams, the cofounder and former CEO of Twitter, appears to have had his Twitter account compromised briefly on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A group by the name of OurMine \u2014 the same group that claimed credit for <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/06\/mark-zuckerberg-twitter-hacked\/\">compromising Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s social media accounts<\/a>\u00a0this weekend \u2014\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">took credit for hacking Williams&#8217; account in a tweet, which was deleted minutes later.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/ZoWfPpQ9jhz-NManREbOtj_JOhQ=\/fit-in\/575x4096\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F110919%2FScreen_Shot_2016-06-08_at_6.00.10_PM.png\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Williams did not immediately respond to request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said it does not comment on individual accounts, but noted in a statement:\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A number of other online services have seen millions of passwords stolen in the past several weeks. We recommend people use a unique, strong password for Twitter.&#8221;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/08\/ev-williams-twitter-hacked\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/twitter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/tvtW2ie1hlQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting out of control. Ev Williams, the cofounder and former CEO of Twitter, appears to have had his Twitter account compromised briefly on Wednesday. A group by the name of OurMine \u2014 the same group that claimed credit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/09\/twitter-cofounder-gets-his-twitter-account-hacked\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}