OurMine Hacker Group Adds Pokemon GO's John Hanke to List of Hacked Silicon Valley CEOs

It's almost every day that there is a hacking incident claiming valuable data from one area or another. In the recent happenings inside of the computer security world, the CEO of the company that created Pokemon GO has come under attack from the OurMine hacker group.

Pokemon GO is a new phenomenon for smartphone users who don't mind getting out and seeking new Pokemon quests to collect as many items as they can. With the fame of Pokemon GO reaching unprecedented levels, topping as many active users as Twitter on a given day, there is no wonder that those who created and marketed the record-breaking game are a prime target for hackers.

Through a series of tweets posted to John Hanke's account, CEO of Pokemon GO's creation company Niantic Inc., the hacker group OurMine made it known that they were able to hack his Quora account. From there, the hackers were able to cross-post on his Twitter account and oust his password used to access his account.

OurMine is a hacker group based out of Saudi Arabia and has been on the hunt for several CEOs of many Silicon Valley businesses. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook is among the short list of CEOs that OurMine has been responsible for attacking in one way or another. OurMine was able to hack Zuckerberg's Twitter account and claiming that he used the password "dadada." In the case of CEO over the company that created Pokemon GO, his password of his Quora account, "nopass," was posted from his Twitter account after the hackers gained access.

There are many other Silicon Valley CEO's who have had one of their accounts hacked by OurMine, including former Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, current Twitter CEO (Pinterest account hacked, Jack Dorsey (Vine account hacked), and Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer (Twitter account hacked). It's rather evident that the OurMine hacker group is prone to hacking social media accounts belonging to high profile CEO's, mostly confined to Twitter, Spotify, and Vine accounts.

Silicon Valley has a rich population of big tech firms, and CEOs is no stranger to the wrath of the OurMine hacker group. It appears that OurMine has been successful with hacking many accounts belonging to large tech firm CEOs for many years and they haven't shown any signs of slowing down. Moreover, OurMine obviously isn't afraid of going after the giants of Silicon Valley has they have hit accounts belonging to Zuckerberg, Marissa Mayer, and even Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek by hacking his Twitter account.