Mark Zuckerberg's facebook page hacked

Khalil Shreateh a Palestinian researcher posted a message on Mark Zukerberg’s (Facebook CEO) page last week, after he says the site security team didn’t take his warnings about a security flaw seriously."First, sorry for breaking your privacy and post(ing) to your wall," wrote Khalil Shreateh.
"I (have) no other choice to make after all the reports I sent to (the) Facebook team." Shreateh, who described himself as an unemployed security researcher with a degree in information systems, said he found a hole in Facebook's systems that let him post to any user's page, including users not on his Friends list. Such an exploit would be a virtual gold mine for spammers, scam artists and others seeking to take advantage of the site's roughly 1 billion users worldwide. Shreateh posted a series of e-mails he said were exchanged between him and Facebook security. After the first one, a Facebook employee responded that the link he attached was bad. Shreateh had included a post -- an Enrique Iglesias video -- he says he posted on the page of a woman who went to college with Zuckerberg. He speculated that Facebook's security team couldn't see it because they weren't on her Friends list. Facebook responded to his second message to say the issue he was reporting was not a bug. His response: "ok that mean(s) I have no choice other than report this to Mark himself on facebook." Needless to say, that got their attention. Facebook says the flaw was fixed on Thursday. But over the weekend the episode began making headlines on tech blogs.



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