By Chris Plante, The Verge, June 28, 2016
On Monday, hacking group OurMine gained access to the Quora account of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. But the damage didn’t stop there. Quora has the ability to connect with a user’s Twitter account — as do thousands of other platforms. Because Pichai had granted Quora permission to tweet from his Twitter account, the hackers were able to send messages from the handle of Google’s leader without actually hacking the account.
