One thing that celebrities have in common with everyday people is that they are also susceptible to cybersecurity breaches. Many public figures have had their private and public tech accounts hacked over the years and these attacks have often been due to them simply having weak passwords that were easy for bad actors to figure out.
The lesson here? One, keep your catchphrases to yourself. Second, don’t use the current year or an exclamation point at the end of your password. It might satisfy the password generators, but it’s the most obvious and commonly used special characters. Mark Zuckerberg Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had his Pinterest, Twitter, and Instagram compromised in 2016 by the hacker group OurMine for having the notoriously lazy password of dadada.
Evan Williams The former Twitter CEO had his own Twitter account hacked in 2016 after bad actors guessed his Foursquare password and figured out, he was reusing the same password for his social media account. Ultimately, investigations determined that the hackers used administrative tools to bypass account security, so the actual celebrities were unable to protect themselves. However, this was once again a case where many celebrities were using the same password across multiple accounts, still leaving them vulnerable.
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