Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked!
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had his profile
hacked by a Palestinian cybersecurity professional who claimed he was
trying to reveal a security bug after the company ignored his warnings
about a vulnerability in their system.
“First, sorry for breaking your
privacy and post to your wall,” Khalil Shreateh wrote over the weekend on
Zuckerberg’s page.
“I no other choice to make after all the reports I
sent to Facebook team.”
Shreateh says he found a loophole in Facebook
that allowed strangers to post on anyone’s page, whether they’re friends with
that person or not — a flaw he said could be exploited by spammers and
scammers.
On his website, Shreateh posted his emails to Facebook warning
them of the issue, but says the company ignored his messages, leading him to
prove his claims by writing on Zuckerberg’s wall.
Facebook says the flaw
has since been fixed.
A Facebook security professional named Matt Jones
wrote on the Hacker News website over the weekend saying that the company is
inundated with correspondences about potential security flaws, and that many of
them are written in poor English, so it can be difficult to figure out which
warnings are legitimate.
Still, he acknowledged Facebook “should have
pushed back asking for more details” from Shreateh
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