Twitter accounts for Facebook & Messenger service hacked by shadowy group

HACKERS have attacked two of Facebook’s official Twitter accounts on Friday night.

Cheeky hackers used a third party to advertise their website and embarrass the cybersecurity team at Twitter.

The official Twitter account @Facebook and that of its messaging app, @Messenger, posted identical messages shortly before 7 p.m.

The posts read: “Hi, we are O u r M i n e. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security better than Twitter.”

The tweets were removed and re-secured by twitter, restoring access to Facebook soon after.

A Twitter spokesperson told that the two accounts were hacked “through a third-party platform.”

The spokesman said: “As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we locked the compromised accounts and are working closely with our partners at Facebook to restore them.”

A Facebook spokesman said: “Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we have secured and restored access.”

OurMine has previously hacked Niantic's CEO in 2016.

The tweet was posted via Khoros, a software company that helps companies use social media to interact with customers and users.

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