This time, it is Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe who had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday.
Iribe is the latest in the list of technology chief executives to have had their social media accounts hacked in recent weeks.
Recently, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter's ex-CEO Dick Costolo, and Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have all fallen victim to similar hacks.
The hacker, who has not been identified yet, changed Iribe's cover photo and replaced his bio to "im not testing ya security im just having a laugh."
The hack became apparent when a tweet from Iribe Twitter account was made saying: "We here @Oculus are very excited to announce our CEO. @Lid ! :)."
This tweet was followed by another saying:
"Imagine creating the coolest s*** to ever be introduced to gaming and technology but using the same pass for 4 years lol... silly mr CEO!"All the tweets in question have since been removed from Iribe's Twitter feed, and the account has now been restored.
The hacker later told Tech Crunch that he was able to get the hold on Iribe's Twitter account by using his credentials exposed in recent MySpace data breach.
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