OurMine hacking group known for hacking social media accounts of tech giants and their CEOs has found a new target and this time it’s the official website of Variety news, a weekly American entertainment news magazine.
Earlier Saturday morning, OurMine group hacked into the Variety news website and posted an article with a title,
“Review: Hacked by #OutMine -Read The post!! By Sasan Crabtree.”
Sasan Crabtree was a writer for Variety whose last article was published in 2004 and it seems like the group hacked her contributor account to post the above-mentioned title and below mentioned content inside the article.
“Hello Variety, it’s #OurMine, don’t worry we are just testing your security, please contact us on ourmine.org -> Contact to show you how…” it stopped mid-sentence, instructing to “watch a video” link for further instruction. That video has since been taken down.
Eh did @Variety get hacked? Just got an email from them that says they apparently did…
— Juice Black (@JuiceBlack) September 3, 2016
That’s not all, the hackers also sent fake emails to Variety’s subscribers but it is unclear how they got access to the subscribers’ list.
Variety, on the other hand, has acknowledged the hack and issued an apology on their site:
“You may have received one or more emails from Variety with the subject line #Ourmine.Variety did not send those emails; please ignore and delete them. We are working diligently to contain the matter and will update you when the issues have been resolved.”
