Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked/tekiniko

OurMine is a Dubai-based hacking group that attacked the accounts of corporations and high-profile individuals in the past, teams and companies.

Facebook's social media accounts were temporarily taken over by a group of hackers on Friday afternoon.

But Facebook still appeared to have some control over the account, and deleted the tweet posted at least five times within seconds. Within 30 minutes, the hack appeared to stop.

OurMine claims its attacks are an attempt to show cyber vulnerabilities.

The group posted a statement on Facebook's Twitter account. "Hi, we are OurMine. Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security is better then Twitter."

It also hijacked the Facebook and Messenger accounts on Instagram to post a photo of OurMine's logo.

Twitter confirmed that the hacking occurred via a third-party and that accounts were locked once it was alerted to the issue.

The accounts appear to have been accessed via the third-party platform Khoros.

Khoros is a marketing platform that businesses can use to manage their social media communications.

In the past, it has temporality infiltrated the social media account of Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey, Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai, and the corporate accounts of Netflix and ESPN.

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The group claims its attacks are designed to show a lack of security. But it also instructs victims to use its services to improve safeguards.