BuzzFeed was hacked by OurMine on Wednesday in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to unmask one of the members of the secretive group. On Tuesday, BuzzFeed posted a story claiming to have identified one of the members of the group as a Saudi teen called Ahmad Makki. The group’s aim, two members told the Guardian, was to make a name for themselves as “white hat” information security consultants. Asked what he enjoys about hacking, he said that he “just wants to upgrade people security”, and he said he wanted OurMine to be “the biggest security group in the world”. One of its clients, a YouTube video-maker called Jordi van den Bussche, told the Guardian his social media accounts were hacked by the group in 2015.

Source: The Guardian October 05, 2016 19:04 UTC