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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The entertainment magazine Variety was hacked by the same group that has targeted the personal accounts of high-profile tech company CEOs, sending emails to Variety's followers with the hashtag #OurMine. Variety acknowledged the hack Saturday and instructed users to disregard and delete the emails as it worked to regain control of its email subscriber database.
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"Our team is working to resolve the unauthorized communications sent from Variety," read the statement. "Please ignore/delete them."
OurMine has previously hacked private email accounts for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams and Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.
Perturbed Variety subscribers took to social media Saturday to express their annoyance at being bombarded by in some case dozens of phishing emails, all containing the hashtag #OurMine.
None of Variety's site content appeared to have been tampered with.
@Variety - Your e-mail appears to be hacked as my inbox is flooded with this right now: pic.twitter.com/5uiDN2YlcD
— Jason Denney (@bootstorm) September 3, 2016
That variety hack is getting annoying. What's the point? #variety #ourmine
— Christoph Kuschnig (@ckuschnig) September 3, 2016
@Variety Can you send someone over to your computer lab? My inbox is getting flooded with hack emails. from #ourmine
— sam friedlander (@samCF) September 3, 2016
