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    Status update: The rise of the social-media extortionist

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    Violet Blue
    Violet Blue
    07.22.2016

    If you've read recent headlines about high-profile tech CEOs getting hacked, you probably felt a stab of dark amusement at the thought of internet fat cats finally getting a taste of what the rest of us have had to drink. A single group, called OurMine, has managed to catch Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, AOL's Steve Case and, most recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey with their password pants down. And it's nothing more than a sleazy PR stunt.