Frustrated hacker goes to Zuckerberg's page to report Facebook bug (In Other Words, Facebook Was Hacked) lol........
Sometimes you have to go straight to the top. A Palestinian information system expert calling himself Khalil tried to alert Facebook to a fairly significant glitch that allows any user to post on the wall of another, whether they're friends or not. That sort of tip is usually worth a $500 reward, but all Khalil got after two tries was the kiss-off, "Sorry, this is not a bug." So he made his case in a more public forum: He used the loophole to hack into Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's page. That got Khalil's own account frozen while the techies scrambled to patch the vulnerability. Now the security team won't pay the reward because it says Khalil violated protocol. But they have restored his account, and expressed hope that he would keep checking their work.
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