Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is just like us — at least, when it comes to using the same password for logging in on multiple sites. On Monday morning, Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts were broken into after a hacker allegedly found his information from the LinkedIn data breach back in May that revealed 117 million user passwords. According to the hacker, Zuckerberg's LinkedIn password was also the key that unlocked a couple of his other accounts.
While the hacker, who went by the name OurMine, was in Zuckerberg's Twitter account, they tweeted "you were in LinkedIn Database ... DM for proof." As for his Pinterest, that got renamed to "Hacked by OurMine Team." The hacker also claimed to have broken into Zuckerberg's Facebook-controlled Instagram account, but Facebook maintains "no Facebook systems or accounts were accessed."
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