Facebook’s social media accounts briefly taken over by notorious hacker collective

Facebook Inc’s official social media accounts were hacked briefly on Friday.

Hackers had briefly taken over Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts along with the official Twitter account of Facebook Messenger, Engadget reported.

“Some of our corporate social accounts were briefly hacked but we have secured and restored access,” the social media giant sent out a post from its Twitter account.

The hacker claimed to be from the OurMine hacker group.

TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker (@zackwhittaker) had managed to take a screenshot of the message posted by the hackers on Facebook’s account and had shared the same on his personal Twitter account.