Wednesday 20 July 2016

OurMine hacker group claims to have broken into Minecraft accounts, targets Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida

Hacker group OurMine has claimed it discovered a way to gain access to any account linked to the wildly popular world-building video game Minecraft. The group also seem to have hijacked the president of worldwide studios at Sony, Shuhei Yoshida’s Twitter account on 20 July.

The group’s latest exploits claim comes just days after the team allegedly launched a series of DDoS attacks to take down smash hit smartphone game Pokemon Go’s servers last weekend.

Tweeting to Yoshida’s more than 249,000 followers, the group wrote, “You have been hacked by OurMine Team. Visit our website to secure yourself.”

Pnning another tweet to the top of his account that reads, “Hey, its OurMine, we are testing your security.”

A member of the OurMine team told IBTimes UK that hijacking the Sony boss’ Twitter account was simple to carry out since he allegedly does not use two-step verification and that his password was supposedly an easy one – “playstation1.” For the full article click here 



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