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

    ... that he shot Bill Murray.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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

  6. 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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    Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
  7. 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.