Lovable Sony suit Shuhei Yoshida is a frequent presence on Twitter, engaging with fans and industry figureheads, promoting all things PlayStation, and occasionally letting us know what he's been playing lately. His total number of tweets at the time of typing amounts is about 43,200 – it seems he's as keen on his social media as he is on video games.
However, it seems something has slipped, as a "security group" calling themselves OurMine seized Shu's account earlier this morning:
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They did later confirm that the link is "safe", but we're not so sure – please don't follow that URL.
There's something extremely fishy going on at the moment. There's every possibility that this is some kind of viral campaign, but it doesn't feel that way to us. All we can do for the time being is report the account for possibly being hacked and pray for Shu to make a triumphant return to his favourite social media channel.
[source twitter.com]
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No way this is a viral campaign! He's been hacked - and I don't think it's the first time.
@get2sammyb Definitely. I only said about the potential for it being viral on the slightest off chance it could be true, but I'm sure his account's been compromised.
Hope he gets his account back soon!
PlayStation (Twitter) account hacked... so.. does this mean more free games?
yeah it was spamming my feed so i un-followed until it's fixed
still do people really have nothing better to do than this, they could put these "skills" to good use and actually help improve online security instead of being idiots
Surely you mean "what the HACK is going on..."
@viciousarcanum
Yeah, seems like it got hacked
Considering Sony probably has an ace legal team, I reckon it wouldn't be that wise to hack his account, just saying.
Hackers definitely... If the Shu fits....
Probably made sexist and/ or racist remarks to the Ghostbusters lady so Twitter had to step in and take over the account #typicalshu #dontgetmadimightbehackedmyself
Ourmine is a hacking group, aims at YouTube usually, little bit of research wouldn't kill ya PS Journalists I kid.. Weird. PoodleCorp attacked Pokémon GO allegedly.
At least the group isn't a combination of an animal name and synonym for group, right?
@LieutenantFatman No Mans Sky?? but Sony seriously needs a lesson on security lol
Far too shady to be a Watch Dogs 2 promotion...
Really Sony? Again? While the marketing team from Sony is almost (if not) perfect, the online security is very lame, this is not the first not even the tenth time that we heard about Sony being hacked in some way.
@Frank90
Twitter is ran by Sony now Yeah, Sony's security is poor, but this ain't their fault.
Ha, that's pretty good.
Is figuring out his password considered a hack?
I love how the think by calling themselves a "security group" it's ok. Someone should break into their homes steal their computers and tell them don't worry we are a security group. I betcha they would be pressing charges on the robbers.
Isn't OurMine the people that have been DDos'ing niantic's Pokemon Go servers?
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