Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked due to rookie password mistake

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by Sindy Cator on June 6, 2016 at 4:45 pm

This weekend, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the world’s largest social site (Facebook), showed us just how important a strong password is after having his Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked by a group known as OurMine. Celebrities, CEOs and world leaders are all major targets for hackers, but Zuckerberg basically invited the attack by allegedly using a six character password which featured all of two unique characters — ‘dadada.’ The hack leads all the way back to a 2012 LinkedIn breach that saw more than six million passwords stolen; Zuckerberg’s seems to have been one of them. Recently, those passwords from the…