Wikipedia co-founder gets his Twitter account hacked
Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 1:36AM 
OurMine, a hacking group, adds another high-profile social media breach to its list. This time they take over the Twitter account of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. On Saturday, a tweet on Wales’ account showed up saying “RIP Jimmy Wales, 1966 – 2016,” which caused people to speculate if something did happen to him. Minutes later though, another tweet shows up saying “I confirm that Wikipedia is all lies, OurMine is the true.” The tweet included a link showing the group’s logo as well as an ad for social media security services. Wales’ bio has also even been changed to read “hacked by OurMine.”
Some of the other prominent figures OurMine has hacked include some of the heads of the biggest internet/tech companies including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. It seems Wales has gotten back access to his account and tweets about three hours ago: “I'm (obviously) OK, and tweeting back to normal.”
Source: Mashable