UPDATE: Pinterest has deleted the two accounts I reference below but it appears this is happening across many other accounts as well (see the comments). Key take-away: check your followers regularly for anyone you haven’t followed yourself. If you find anything odd let me know in the comments.

I’ll add details here as I investigate more but it looks like Pinterest has been hacked again. This is probably related to the original Pinterest hack I discovered the other day. What appears to be happening is the hack is somehow auto-following Pinterest users for you. I noticed this on my profile just now:

I did not follow either of these women. I might have visted Maria’s page while checking out the original hack, her face looks familiar, but I definitely did not visit Jessica Alba’s page.

If you look at Maria’s profile you can see she has over 84000 followers but 0 pins! The fake Jessica Alba profile shows over 99000 followers and only 4 pins, in Jessica’s case a good % of the followers could be from people mistakenly believeing it’s really her but many were clearly auto follows. Check your followers and let me know in the comments if this has happened to you too.

UPDATE: Maria appears to have been deleted by Pinterest since I published this so you won’t see her on your profile now. The fake Jessica is still there as of now though.
UPDATE 6:12 EST: The fake Jessica has now also been deleted so you won’t see her either.

This morning I noticed an odd pin for diet pills on my wife’s Pinterest board. It was clearly a high paying affiliate offer so I let her know that I thought it was weird she posted that (she’s more savvy than that). She quickly said she hadn’t so we went back to Pinterest to investigate and while she hadn’t, something had, and now it had hit me too (along with many others you can see complaining on Twitter 1, 2, 3). Seems like Pinterest has been hacked! More details below.

Here’s what was automatically pinned to my board:

I wouldn't post a Walmart ad, ever.

Here’s another sample from someone else’s Pinterest boards:

Pinterest hacked and automatically pinned two ads

I’m not a fluent hacker so I’m not sure exactly how it is being done but it appears to be coming from Facebook-goodies.com.

If this has happend to you, I’d recommend deleting the offending pin, clearing all browser caches then reset your Pinterest password. Also, if you’ve had this happen to you let me know in the comments.

This bookmarklet enables you to toggle the visibility of comments on Pinterest.com. This allows for a more peaceful and productive pinning experience by removing the noise and increasing the number of pins you can view at once. Let me know what you think.

Pinterest Before: 4 Pins	Pinterest After: 7.5 Pins
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