Hamid Mir’s twitter account, which has over 1.6 million followers, has been reportedly hacked by an unknown hacker just moments ago. The hacker, without identifying him/herself, leaked Hamid Mir’s private emails online, however, we could not confirm if these emails indeed belonged to Hamid Mir or not.
From the look of things, its more than just the Twitter account that was compromised as some tweets include bank statements and email excerpts from his official email ID as well.
Update:
Hamir Mir, while speaking to a Dawn News show, confirmed that his Twitter account was hacked. “Since my iPhone was linked with Twitter, hence my phone got blocked too”, said Hamid Mir.
Mir said that emails shared by hacker are probably from last year, but since he hasn’t gone through all the email screen-shots himself, he wouldn’t say with certainty about the legitimacy of email contents.
Without naming anyone, Hamid said that mastermind before this hacking incident is evident from tweets. “From the content of tweets its apparent who is behind the works, but since I don’t have any evidence I would rather not make a sweeping statement”, said Mr. Mir.
At the time of writing, tweets are still up but we’re posting screenshots just in case the account is recovered and they are deleted:
We honestly don’t understand why people refuse to enable two step verification for their social media accounts, especially when there’s a lot on stake for professionals like Hamid Mir.
As mentioned above, legitimacy of emails leaked on hacked Hamid Mir’s Twitter account is yet to be verified. Nonetheless, this is very scary and implications of this hacks are going to be huge.
Hopefully Mir and other prominent personalities on Twitter have learned their lesson.
You can check out Hamid Mir’s Twitter account here.
Update
Hamid Mir — after 12 hours of loosing control over his account — gotback the access to his Twitter account, and as you would expect all above tweets have been deleted.
Hamid Mir’s account remained under hacker’s control for around 10 hours which is beyond common comprehension.
Not to mention, account never went into suspended mode, something that Twitter does for accounts that are reported for hacks.
Mr. Mir — in an interview with Dawn News — said that restoration of his access to his account is taking time because its night time in the USA.
