After hacking Netflix, OurMine hits Marvel accounts

UPDATED 2:35 p.m. ET: Added comment from Marvel spokesperson

After accessing Netflix's Twitter account, the collective OurMine has now logged in to several Twitter accounts associated with Marvel, including the company's main account and those associated with several Marvel Cinematic Universe films.

The tweets sent by the group from the accounts were very similar in nature to the ones sent from Netflix's Twitter earlier on Wednesday in offering help to the companies which had been hacked.

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Besides the main "@Marvel" account, accounts tied to the film franchises of Thor, Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, and Iron Man's Tony Stark were infiltrated.

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In an email exchange to Mashable, a member of the group said there was no reason it chose Marvel, adding "we are just choosing the people who had bad security."

They also said:

i just want to spread a message to everyone " we are a security group, not a hacking group " most of news websites says we are a hacking group

but we are not We never change passwords, we never change emails, we never abuse, we never request money from our targets"

In an email to another Mashable reporter, the group explained how it was exploiting Marvel's lack of two-factor authentication.

"not all of them had 2-factor authentication, but even if they had 2-factor authentication we are able to hack the accounts using third party apps

and i can confirm 90% of the brands don't had 2-factor authentication, because there is a lot of people are logging to the account"

As noted earlier today, the group has hacked the social accounts of many high-profile people and companies this year, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, BuzzFeed and Forbes. 

A spokesperson for Marvel told Mashable, “We’re investigating and taking immediate action to remedy the situation.”