14 DAY TRIAL // OurMine, a Saudi-based hacking group, has launched DDoS attacks on the websites of HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), targeting its British and US portals.
The attack started early on Tuesday, July 12, when the group published the following blog post.
“ Hello Guys, today we checked HSBC Bank security , and their website was able to be attacked! , and now we took it down! if you are working on HSBC Bank , please contact us on [REDACTED URL] and we will stop the attack and we will let you know how to protect it from people attacks! ”
Screenshots were later attached to provide proof that HSBC servers went down. The hackers stopped their attack a few hours later, on the same day, when they published a new blog post that just read, "Hello, We stopped the attack of HSBC Bank! a staff of HSBC Talked with us"Contact requests for more details were not answered prior to the article's publication. The group's response will be added to this post if available. It is not known if this was a DDoS extortion attempt or just a prank.
Group became famous by hacking Silicon Valley CEOs
In recent months, the OurMine crew started making a name for themselves by hacking several high-profile CEOs, such as:
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO, they hacked his Pinterest and Twitter profile);
- Dick Costolo (former Twitter CEO, they hacked his Pinterest account and cross-posted to his Twitter account);
- Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO, hacked Vine account and cross-posted to his Twitter account);
- Sundar Pichai (Google CEO, they hacked his Quora account and cross-posted to his Twitter profile);
- Ev Williams (Twitter, Blogger, and Medium co-founder, they hacked his Twitter account);
- Marissa Mayer (Yahoo CEO, they hacked Twitter account);
- Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO, they hacked his Twitter account);
- Brendan Iribe (Oculus Rift CEO, they hacked his Twitter account).
