CEO of Pokémon Go’s Niantic Labs hacked on Twitter

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by Sindy Cator on August 1, 2016 at 5:15 pm

John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go creator Niantic, is the latest in a string of high-profile Twitter account hacks recently. The hack saw Hanke join the likes of Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey — the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter — and again, the hack was perpetrated by OurMine, the Saudi collective that claimed responsibility for the previous social media hacks as well as taking down WikiLeaks a month back. OurMine gained access to the account due to a failure on behalf of Hanke to secure it with a difficult password. The hackers claim the password was “nopass,” a…