Facebook Hacked

Live Mag UK July 8, 2011 0
Facebook Hacked

Recently, a strange message was posted onto Facebook, by none other than Mark Zuckerberg – the founder of Facebook.  Or so it seemed. It appeared to imply that Facebook may soon become a ‘social business‘, meaning that users of the website would invest their own money into the site, rather than it being a free-to-use social network.

“Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Price [sic] winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011”

Posted on Mark Zuckerberg’s public Facebook profile

This message, of course, quickly led to thoughts that Zuckerberg’s account had been hacked.  Yes, that’s right, it’s not just us, the users – even the owner of one of the biggest businesses, who is worth billions of US dollars, can have his public Facebook page hijacked, too!

Facebook later announced that it was the fault of a ‘bug’ that allowed statuses to be posted on particular public pages by, let’s say, “the wrong people”. But luckily, no personal accounts were affected by the so-called bug – so we’re safe!

Some people, on the other hand, have a few other ideas about how the message came about.  These include using an unsecure connection (which would allow the password to be stolen), angry employees, or even just Mr. Zuckerberg simply walking away from his computer, and someone else grabbing the opportunity to post the inappropriate message.

In light of this situation, Facebook has released new security tools that will allow us to always connect with a secure connection, making hacking like this a lot more difficult.

Something this proves is that not even well-known public figures can get away from these profile hijackers – even when it’s their own business.

 

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