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Mark Zuckerberg Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked a group calling itself our mind team has taken credit for this how did the group do it the our mine team says Zuckerberg has information was in a LinkedIn database that was leaked a few weeks ago a hacker by the name of peace claim to be selling 117 million LinkedIn details LinkedIn contacted those affected and told them to change their passwords so how did the LinkedIn password work on other sites you guessed it it appears that Mark Zuckerberg used the same password on multiple sites including Twitter and Pinterest that's a big security nono if you're curious as to what password the founder of Facebook used in other sites that information was also shared the hackers posted on Zuckerberg Twitter account at the following message hey at finked you were in LinkedIn database with the password da da da da M for proof that's right da da da was the password used by Mark Zuckerberg on a number of other social networks at the time of the hack Twitter suspended Zuckerberg account but that has since been fixed the tweet posted by our mine team was also deleted by the way people are selling t-shirts with Zuckerberg password on it already amazing this should be a reminder to everyone including me do not use the same password on multiple sites that's it for this tech news update I'm Mya Zach turn you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash