Former CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo Twitter account compromised

Twitter account of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo of was committed to Tweets from the hacker group that appears in OurMine feeding Costolo. OurMine is the same group that hacked Twitter and Pinterest Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The account was not hacked directly, instead of a third party service that cross posted to the Costolo Twitter account was compromised, and the attackers use this service for your ad old power Costolo, according to a recode.

Costolo was able to resume his account. Tweets are removed and the Twitter account belonging to OurMine has also been suspended. The hacker group based in Saudi Arabia OurMine claims to be on a mission to teach people how to better protect their accounts.

The group has committed social networking accounts of a number of high-profile targets. The trick Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the password options Zuckerberg was dadada. Apart from Zuckerberg, OurMine had taken over the Twitter account of artist David Guetta EDM. OurMine had also hacked the Twitter account of another Twitter co-founder and former CEO, Evan Williams.

After the attack OurMine publish tweets applying for a contact DM, and advises readers not to worry, the tweet is just a security check. Williams used a similar trick to attack Costolo attack, a third of third-party services that cross posted on Twitter was compromised. To Costolo, the service is unknown, for Williams, was square.