---
title: "Hackers Hijack Facebook’s Twitter, Instagram Accounts"
description: "On Friday, OurMine's hackers took over the Instagram and Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook in an apparent effort to drum up business."
date: "2020-02-10"
modified: "2020-02-10"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/hackers-hijack-facebooks-twitter-instagram-accounts"
categories:
  - "Cybersecurity"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Hacking"
tags:
  - "facebook"
  - "hacking"
  - "ourmine"
  - "the digest"
---

# Hackers Hijack Facebook’s Twitter, Instagram Accounts

![On Friday, OurMine's hackers took over the Instagram and Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook in an apparent effort to drum up business.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hackers-hijack-facebooks-twitter-instagram-accounts.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Futurism\</em\>*

## Account Takeovers

Dubai-based hacking group [OurMine](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/hacker-group-seizes-twitter-facebook-nfl-teams>) has struck again, this time taking over social media giant [Facebook's Instagram and Twitter accounts](<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51424352>).

On Friday, the Instagram accounts for both Facebook and Messenger briefly displayed a photo of OurMine's logo — a particularly egregious hack, since Facebook owns Instagram.

## Everything's Hackable

While in control of Facebook's Twitter accounts, OurMine posted a message claiming responsibility — and then [reposted the message](<https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21128779/facebook-twitter-messenger-account-ourmine-hacked-nfl>) every time it was deleted.

"Hi, we are OurMine," the hackers wrote. "Well, even Facebook is hackable but at least their security is better then \[sic\] Twitter."

Despite OurMine's claim that Facebook is hackable, the social network itself was apparently not compromised in this hack, [according to *BBC News*](<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51424352>).

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1225936325531955200

## Online Marketing

As was the case when OurMine recently hijacked the social media accounts of [15 NFL teams](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/hacker-group-seizes-twitter-facebook-nfl-teams>), each message posted to Facebook's accounts also included the hackers' contact information for anyone interested in beefing up their account security.

It's hard to know whether these high-profile account takeovers have actually resulted in anyone hiring OurMine. But if nothing else, the incidents have definitely drawn attention to the group — and confirmed that even tech giants are vulnerable to hacking.

**READ MORE:** [Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked](<https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51424352>) \[*BBC News*\]

**More on OurMine:** *[Hacker Group Seizes Twitter, Facebook Accounts of 15 NFL Teams](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/hacker-group-seizes-twitter-facebook-nfl-teams>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)