Mark Zukerberg, founder of facebook, had his facebook account hacked by a Palestine programmer to highlight a flaw in the company’s code.

According to the BBC, Khalil Shreateh discovered a privacy vulnerability on facebook and used it to hack the account of the founder to raise alarm.

Mr. Shreateh said he tried to bring the attention of the media giant to the problem through their white Hat scheme, which offers a monetary reward for reporting vulnerabilities, but was ignored.

Facebook said it had fixed the fault but would not be paying Mr Shreateh.

When Mr Shreateh discovered a security breach that allowed Facebook users to post messages on the private “walls” of people who had not approved them as “friends”, overriding the site’s privacy features he He wrote to Facebook’s White Hat team to warn them of the glitch, providing basic details of his discovery.

After a short exchange with the team, Mr Shreateh received an email saying: “I am sorry this is not a bug”.
Following this rebuttal, Mr Shreateh exploited the bug to post a message on Mr Zuckerberg’s page.

In the post, Mr Shreateh, whose first language is Arabic, said he was “sorry for breaking your privacy and post to your wall” but that he had “no other choice” after being ignored by Facebook’s security team.

An engineer on Facebook’s security team, Matt Jones, posted a public explanation saying that although Mr Shreateh’s original email should have been followed up, the way he had reported the bug had violated the site’s “responsible disclosure policy”.

He added that as Mr Shreateh had highlighted the bug “using the accounts of real people without their permission”, he would not qualify for a payout.

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if Mark Zuckerbergs account can be hacked, what happen to those who open an account with GTB on facebook, those transacting business on facebook,etc

This is a serious Question that requires an Answer by Developers Onboard.

seun watch out!!!!