Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked

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."

His Fan Page, Not His Account

[eldavojohn]

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 [washingtonpost.com], not his personal page. That may or may not have been updated by him -- most likely it was some staff or fan of Zuckerberg.

One known vulnerability

[OverkillTASF]

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.

Re:In other news...

[JackieBrown]

It is offtopic and should be modded that way.

Here is the actual article discussion if you want to bitch on-topic.

http://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/01/25/163257/Slashdot-Launches-Re-Design [slashdot.org]