Twitter Accounts of Olympics, FC Barcelona Hacked by 'OurMine' Hacking Syndicate

Hackers accept used a third-party platform to break into the official Twitter accounts of Olympics and FC Barcelona, to postal service a message that star histrion Neymar would come dorsum to the soccer squad. The hacker grouping called OurMine, that last month defaced social media accounts of the National Football game League (NFL) and 15 of its teams, hijacked accounts for both the Olympics and FC Barcelona teams on Saturday.

According to Engadget, Twitter confirmed the hacking, saying OurMine used a "3rd-party platform" to accept control of the accounts. Twitter locked downwardly the affected accounts and was "working closely" with partners to restore them. The International Olympic Committee said it was "investigating a potential alienation" while FC Barcelona said it would run a "cybersecurity audit".

OurMine is believed to be based in Saudi Arabia and defaced social media accounts of the NFL, the 49ers, Cardinals, Bears, Bills, Broncos, Browns, Bucs, Cowboys, Colts, Chiefs, Eagles, Giants, Packers, Texans, and Vikings last month. Most of the tweets posted by the OurMine hackers came from Khoros – a spider web service used by digital marketing and PR departments to manage social media accounts, and is continued to a social media business relationship as a third-party app.

OurMine has been involved in high-profile hacking in the past, including breaking into social media accounts of celebrities such as Facebook CEO Marking Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, to name a few. The group has been active since 2016 and is believed to consist of several Saudi teenagers.

Earlier this month, the official Twitter accounts of Facebook and its messaging app Messenger were hacked past the same group of hackers. "Howdy, we are O u r M i n e. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter", posted the hackers. In a statement here, a Facebook spokesperson said: "Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we take secured and restored admission".