In addition to the tweet, OurMine posted its logo multiple times on both Facebook and Messenger’s Instagram accounts.The tweet has since been deleted, as were the posts on both Facebook and Messenger’s Instagram accounts. Facebook responded to the hacking on Twitter writing, “Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we have secured and restored access.”It was fun watching this battle between Facebook and hackers where hackers keep posting tweets and Facebook keeps deleting them pic.twitter.com/c7APEJn38I
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 8, 2020
"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," Twitter said in a statement, the BBC reported. According to Business Insider, Facebook was able to delete OurMine’s tweet, which was posted “at least” five times, and the hacking incident ended after 30 minutes.Facebook confirmed to Reuters that some of its accounts were hacked. “Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we have secured and restored access,” Facebook spokesman Joe Osborne told Reuters.In January, OurMine hacked 15National Football League teams’ accounts, according to Business Insider. The hacking group has also taken over the accounts of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we have secured and restored access
— Facebook (@Facebook) February 8, 2020