Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has had his profile page
hacked by an IT security researcher, after the social network ignored his
warnings that a glitch in the site allowed anyone to post on a stranger’s
wall.
Khalil Shreateh, a systems information expert from Palestine, attempted
to report the vulnerability to Facebook's security team twice,
demonstrating that the glitch was real by posting an Enrique Iglesias video
on the wall of one of Zuckerberg's college friends, Sarah Goodin, with whom
he was not connected.
However, Facebook dismissed his warnings, claiming that the issue "was
not a bug", as only Goodin's friends were able to see the post on her
wall.
Frustrated, Shreateh decided to use the glitch to hack into Mark Zuckerberg's
profile page. In a post which has since been removed, he apologised for
breaking Zuckerberg's privacy, adding: "I had no other choice... after
all the reports I sent to Facebook team"
In less than a minute, Shreateh's Facebook account was suspended and he was
contacted by a Facebook security engineer requesting all the details of the
exploit.
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