The developer and creator behind the world’s most popular game Pokémon GO John Hanke’s twitter account has been hacked recently by OurMine hacking group. Niantic CEO- John is so busy with its newly launched game Pokémon GO that he hasn’t noticed or took any measures against it even after over 12 hours of the hack.
The hackers have also tweeted the password which Hanke has used for his Twitter account, and it was – “nopass”.
His password was too easy “nopass” #OurMine !? https://t.co/HGjAA3wG7z
— John Hanke (@johnhanke) July 31, 2016
OurMine is the same group of Saudi Arabian hackers that previously compromised social media accounts of other CEOs which includes Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Hanke’s hacked tweets suggested that OurMine was testing Hanke’s security and that the company has even offered to upgrade his security charging up to $5,000 for a “scan” of their social media accounts, site security holes, and other security flaws.
Hey, it’s #OurMine , don’t worry we are just testing your security, visit our website to upgrade your security!? https://t.co/VgKwo8gMcN
— John Hanke (@johnhanke) July 31, 2016
However it appears that OurMine managed to post on Hanke’s Twitter timeline after hacking his Quora account. One of the tweets posted by the group claimed the hack was for Brazil.
#OurMine | This hack for Brazil #POKEMONGOBRAZIL#PokemonGo4Brazil !? https://t.co/j2Ia8hnYhK
— John Hanke (@johnhanke) July 31, 2016