Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Accounts Hacked

马克·扎克伯格的社交账号被黑了

Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not safe from cyber attackers.

连脸书创始人马克·扎克伯格都遭遇了网络攻击。

Zuckerberg’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest profiles were briefly hacked over the weekend. His Facebook and Instagram accounts were not involved, Facebook officials said.

上周末扎克伯格的推特、领英和Pinterest的个人简况都被短暂性地黑了。脸书官方称，他的脸书和照片分享账号并未被攻击。

A group calling itself OurMine Team said it attacked the three accounts on Sunday, according to the website TechCrunch. The accounts were quickly restored.

据TechCrunch网站报道，一个自称“OurMine Team”的组织声称他们周日攻击了这三个账号。这三个账号被很快恢复了。

Twitter says a Twitter account used by the hackers to post messages was suspended. A website called Engadget captured messages posted by the hackers to Zuckerberg’s personal Twitter account.

推特称他们封了一个被黑客们用来发布讯息的推特账号。一个叫“瘾科技”的网站捕捉到了黑客们发到扎克伯格个人推特账号的消息。

“We are just testing your security,” said one message posted by the hackers to the billionaire’s Twitter profile. Zuckerberg had not posted anything to his Twitter account since 2012.

“我们只是在测试你的安全。”黑客们发到这位亿万富翁的推特简况中的一条消息称。2012年以来扎克伯格未在他的推特账号中发布任何消息。

Business networking site LinkedIn confirmed Monday that the Facebook founder’s data was compromised, The New York Times reported. The company said the hackers attempted to create a false profile for Zuckerberg.

据纽约时报报道，商务社交网站领英周一确认脸书创始人的数据被盗了。该公司称黑客们试图为扎克伯格创建一个虚假简况。

“We were alerted of this takeover attempt and have taken action to remove the false profile on LinkedIn,” said a statement, the newspaper reported.

该报报道，领英公司的发言人称“我们收到有关此篡改意图的提醒，已经采取行动除去领英上的虚假简况”。

The hackers also posted what they claimed was the password used for Zuckerberg’s LinkedIn account.

黑客们还发布了他们声称用于扎克伯格领英账号的密码。

But LinkedIn did not say if the attacks on Zuckerberg’s social media accounts were part of a large data breach at the company in 2012. That leak, of emails and passwords, affected more than 100 million LinkedIn accounts.

但是领英并未说明对于扎克伯格社交媒体账号的攻击是否源于2012年该公司的一个大的数据缺口。那次邮件和密码的泄露使1亿多个领英账号受到了影响。

Internet security experts suggest that users change their passwords often to keep accounts safe. They also warn users not to use the same passwords for different social media accounts.

网络安全专家建议用户经常改变密码以保证账户安全。他们还警告用户不要在不同的社交媒体账号上使用同一个密码。

I’m Bryan Lynn.

布莱恩·林恩报道。

Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is not safe from cyber attackers.

Zuckerberg’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest profiles were briefly hacked over the weekend. His Facebook and Instagram accounts were not involved, Facebook officials said.

A group calling itself OurMine Team said it attacked the three accounts on Sunday, according to the website TechCrunch. The accounts were quickly restored.

Twitter says a Twitter account used by the hackers to post messages was suspended. A website called Engadget captured messages posted by the hackers to Zuckerberg’s personal Twitter account.

“We are just testing your security,” said one message posted by the hackers to the billionaire’s Twitter profile. Zuckerberg had not posted anything to his Twitter account since 2012.

Business networking site LinkedIn confirmed Monday that the Facebook founder’s data was compromised, The New York Times reported. The company said the hackers attempted to create a false profile for Zuckerberg.

“We were alerted of this takeover attempt and have taken action to remove the false profile on LinkedIn,” said a statement, the newspaper reported.

The hackers also posted what they claimed was the password used for Zuckerberg’s LinkedIn account.

But LinkedIn did not say if the attacks on Zuckerberg’s social media accounts were part of a large data breach at the company in 2012. That leak, of emails and passwords, affected more than 100 million LinkedIn accounts.

Internet security experts suggest that users change their passwords often to keep accounts safe. They also warn users not to use the same passwords for different social media accounts.

I’m Bryan Lynn.

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Words in This Story

cyber – adj. relating to computers or the internet

hack – v. gain access to a computer or network illegally

restore – v. bring something back

mogul – n. an important, successful person

networking – v. interacting with other people to exchange information and develop contacts

password – n. a secret work needed to gain access to something

breach – n. violation of a law or standard