Formation 2014 Membership unknown | Type Hacker group | |
OurMine Security Group is a hacker group. The group uses hacks of celebrity internet accounts to advertise their commercial services.
In 2016, they hacked the Twitter accounts of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, Pokémon Go creator John Hanke, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose Pinterest was also hacked. In addition to social media accounts, the group has hacked the website TechCrunch.
In October 2016, BuzzFeed published an article linking the OurMine group to a Saudi Arabian teenager using the name Ahmad Makki on social media. OurMine denied the allegations, claiming that Makki was only a "fan" of the group. One day after the article's publication, OurMine infiltrated BuzzFeed's website and altered the content of several posts to read "Hacked By OurMine".
On 11 November 2016, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' official Wikimedia global account was compromised, an act for which the hacker group claimed responsibility on their website.