Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, has had his Twitter account hijacked by hacker group, OurMine.
Pokemon Go hackers take down Yoshida
His latest tweet requests that Yoshida visits the hacking group’s website to secure his account:
You have been hacked by OurMine Team Visit our website to secure yourself https://t.co/aw5VDyts8M
— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) July 20, 2016
The response from some of Yoshida’s 249,000 followers are varied. While one guy thinks it’s a viral marketing stunt,another believes that hackers could have been paid to hack his account.
@yosp chill for a sec guys, could be people paid to hack into their stuff to check how secure it is
— Matthew Skora (@Skora_Matthew) July 20, 2016
One user warns that you SHOULD NOT CLICK THE LINK IN HIS TWEET.
@yosp DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK.
— Jono (@Zombirate) July 20, 2016
OurMine hackers target Sony president
OurMine are said to be a group of three hackers who are known to target high profile companies. Recently, they claimed to have hacked the accounts of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels, and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.
Some sources claim that OurMine were also behind the recent DDoS attack on the Pokemon Go! servers.