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TechCrunch Falls Victim to Notorious Hacking Group

The hacking group OurMine has added another noteworthy target to its list of victims.

The technology news website TechCrunch, headquartered in San Francisco, was breached Tuesday morning by the hackers Tuesday who pinned the following "important message" to the site's homepage: "Hello Guys, dont worry we are just testing techcrunch security, we didn't change any passwords, please contact us on https://ourmine.org/news/contact-us, Thanks."

The hackers followed up their initial ploy with a picture of the OurMine logo displayed prominently on the TechCrunch website before casting a green banner with their message along the homepage.

OurMine's message was posted around 4:20 a.m. PST and was taken down within two hours, according to The Guardian.

TechCrunch isn't the only victim of an OurMine attack. Both Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey have had their social media accounts breached in the past two months, The Guardian reported.

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