Hackers deface Facebook's official Twitter and Instagram accounts
Facebook's official accounts on Twitter and Instagram have been temporarily taken over and then defaced by a group of hackers known as OurMine. Confirmed as hacked were: Facebook's Twitter account [ source ] Facebook's Instragram account [ source ] Facebook Messenger's Twitter account [ source ] Facebook Messenger's Instagram account [ source ] All hacked accounts have now been restored into Facebook's possession and the defacement posts removed. The attack has been carried out by OurMine, the same hacker group who last week defaced Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts for the NFL, 15 NFL teams , and sports TV station ESPN . The hacks took place before the Super Bowl, in order to gain the group reputational points and media coverage. At the time, ZDNet reported that the unauthorized tweets posted on the Twitter timelines of NFL and its teams were posted via an app named Khoros, an app that's usually used by digital marketi...