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Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

dinscott writes "An unknown hacker broke into the 26-year-old internet celebrity's Facebook account and posted a bizarre message calling upon the firm to adopt a social cause. More than 1800 people 'liked' the update before Facebook took down their CEO's page. Facebook has made no public statement about how the hack occurred, possibly to save their CEO from embarrassment."

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  1. Security by HaZardman27 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe he'll start taking privacy and security seriously now, but probably not.

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    1. Re:Security by mysidia · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Perhaps, but probably only his privacy and security. He can't give up the advertising revenue; it's FB's lifeblood.

    2. Re:Security by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

      What do you mean? An African or European slashdot?

  2. I'm still pissed ... by KillaBeave · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... that he shot Bill Murray.

  3. It will teach him... by FranckMartin · · Score: 2

    ..not to let his computer unlocked at the office when he goes to have a piss!

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  4. His Fan Page, Not His Account by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative

    An unknown hacker broke into the 26-year-old internet celebrity's Facebook account

    I don't think that's an accurate account of what happened. It was his Fan Page, not his personal page. That may or may not have been updated by him -- most likely it was some staff or fan of Zuckerberg.

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    1. Re:His Fan Page, Not His Account by jgtg32a · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why let a little thing like facts get in the way of a good headline

    2. Re:His Fan Page, Not His Account by anti-pop-frustration · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mark Zuckerberg has "fans"?

      I guess sycophancy and worshiping the rich never goes out of style.

  5. New job opening by Kildjean · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will be available soon because someone will get fired today... I can tell you that...

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    1. Re:New job opening by corbettw · · Score: 3

      Yes, that's the proper course of action to take when something goes wrong: immediately affix blame and fire the person who made a mistake. Let's not take the time to learn from our mistakes and ensure we don't repeat them, just get rid of anyone who is at all imperfect.

      This is why you are (probably) not in management and never will be. If you are in management, this is why your employees hate you.

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    2. Re:New job opening by Abstrackt · · Score: 2

      Yes, that's the proper course of action to take when something goes wrong: immediately affix blame and fire the person who made a mistake. Let's not take the time to learn from our mistakes and ensure we don't repeat them, just get rid of anyone who is at all imperfect.

      This is why you are (probably) not in management and never will be. If you are in management, this is why your employees hate you.

      Meanwhile, here in reality... How likely you are to get fired is directly proportional to how public your mistake is or was.

      For example, if you make a public mistake on a website everyone's heard of odds are your head will be on the chopping block because investors need to see problems are dealt with swiftly and efficiently. If you just spill coffee on your company-issued laptop you're probably just going to get reprimanded and not allowed to have another one but you keep your job because you only made yourself look bad.

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    3. Re:New job opening by locallyunscene · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't think they can fire Mark Zuckerberg.

    4. Re:New job opening by TheSeventh · · Score: 2

      Depends on the company. At a company I was doing contract work for, one of their engineers made a dumb mistake, by not paying enough attention to detail, (only a modest amount was needed anyway), and it ended up costing the company $500K. He wasn't fired, but his department and others had to come up with ways to keep it from happening again.

      Knowing that the chances of you getting fired are pretty low for making even a stupid mistake helps people to acknowledge and own up to the mistakes faster and with less fear. Then the problems can be dealt with and fixed on a timely basis.

      Thinking you might be fired if people find out about your mistake leads to people trying to hide it, cover it up, blame it on someone else, or do whatever they can to keep people from finding out that they did it. This makes it much more difficult to identify, track down, and come up with solutions for the problem.

      Which would you rather have your employees doing?

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  6. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I got here from Googling my idol and my favorite site, Facebook.

    This is sooo great here, ya know! It looks so kewl here! Can I make you my friend? I could use some of these karma hits you talk about myself. My life has been pretty sucky ....

    Hey, this Slash Dot site is pretty good? Where's the Sash dot button on Facebook? .... My buddy theodore saw my face on Starbaucks ad! Isn't that kewl! This is rock'in! I think I'll put this page on my wall.

    --Biffy

  7. would your holiness care to change his password? by Hydian · · Score: 2

    Maybe god wasn't a good choice of passwords for the superuser account? He should have read the memo.

  8. Re:if zuckerberg went away for a while by FredFredrickson · · Score: 2

    That is the issue. It puts people who shouldn't know each other into one giant cesspool. Not all my friends are friends with each other.

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  9. Please god where is the like buton for this.... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kudos to the person that "hacked" it. what a better way to highlight the security problems with facebook than to target the head cheese.

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  10. Re:In other news... by Magada · · Score: 2

    Hey... I just checked. The project log for slashcode on sourceforge is empty. The project seems unmaintained.

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  11. Easy for them to adopt a social cause by h00manist · · Score: 2

    All they need to do is create "citizen council groups" organized by zip code or something, put everyone inside one, set some default topics such as health and education or public representative responsiveness, and they're done.

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  12. I love consultants by snookiex · · Score: 3, Funny
    From TFA:

    Facebook users - famous or not - need to take better care of their social networking security," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.

    Scott Adams has depicted them in so many ways...

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  13. Re:if zuckerberg went away for a while by RadioElectric · · Score: 2

    Can't they at least make it a small range of integers? I was meaning to delete my account for awhile, the thing that made me do it was this burnout dude from over two decades ago whom I hung out with in study hall a couple times wanted to friend me, and I'm thinking, so this dude and my wife are supposedly on the same level, according to facebook's way of thinking?

    This is troubling you because you are letting Facebook influence the way that you're thinking. It is not some official list for keeping track of what your relationships are with the people that you know. I'd actually find such a thing abhorrent. What it does let you do is let you communicate selectively with a pre-defined (by you!) group of people. Is there really much you'd want to communicate privately to your wife that you wouldn't say or do in-person anyway?

  14. One known vulnerability by OverkillTASF · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of my associates manages the Facebook page of a local baseball team. A while back, they started getting iPhone spam posted to their team's Facebook page. No one could tell why. He was changing passwords, taking away peoples' access, running offline virus scans on their hard drives... Losing his mind with it. Each time one of these messages got posted, they'd lose 1,000 fans due to the spam. That's a big deal for companies that use Facebook. Turns out, the issue was due to the "mobile updates" feature. According to him, there's a random email address that you send updates to, and that gets posted to your page. This is not something you can disable, you can only request that the address be changed. The result is that you can basically spam a whole ton of random email addresses in this format and get your message posted to a load of random Facebook pages. Facebook has not been helpful in stopping this or disabling this feature for their account. Since then, I have seen this happen to my girlfriend's Facebook page as well as her friends', etc. This vulnerability is a wide spread problem. It may not be what happened in TFA (I did not read it), but it's out there. And it's insane.

  15. Re:What was his password? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "password" or "XXXXXX"?

    OT: Interesting security related thing about the new slashdot redesign, if you put your /. password into the comment, it will automatically be replaced with XXXXXX to protect your privacy...

  16. Hackercup 2011 by Stregano · · Score: 2

    Why would Facebook host something called Hackercup 2011 and NOT expect something like this to happen during it? It would be like me going to Def Con with a Windows XP machine, use they open wireless network, and get pissed and think it is weird that my computer got hacked. Seriously. Also, I checked the "Hackercup 2011" stuff they are doing, and it should be called just another programming competition. You put the word hacker in there, and something is getting hacked, for real. Maybe ol' zucky-poo should have thought that one out better. They should let the unknown hacker win the Hacker cup since he did a hack cool enough to not just make headlines, but some people that posted the headline to their status got it removed by FB. I would say that the person won regardless of what the even was (the hacker clearly marked at the end that this had to do with the Hackercup)

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  17. Re:In other news... by JackieBrown · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is offtopic and should be modded that way.

    Here is the actual article discussion if you want to bitch on-topic.

    http://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/01/25/163257/Slashdot-Launches-Re-Design

  18. Re:In other news... by Magada · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Think of it as burning karma for great justice. I'm sick of complaint departments that collect complaints and dump them and support e-mail addresses that don't support anything and free speech zones that aren't and generally of all the bullshit of manufacturing consent. I intend to be obnoxious in return.

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