Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Facebook Hacked: Rewarded with $10K but not From Facebook

A Palestinian Citizen Khalil Shreateh discovered a serious and major security flaws in Facebook that allows user to post to anyone's Facebook Timeline whether they are friends or not. Khali Shreteh directly posted in Mark Zuckerberg Facebook wall to prove himself.
facebook hacked

Facebook said that Khalil Shreateh has violated the terms of service of Facebook by exploiting the users timeline to expose the bug. Hence, Zukerberg is just an ordinary Facebook user therefore no one is allowed to exploit others timeline because it is against the terms of service.
In hackers community some hackers are saying that Shreateh should pay attention to the Facebook rules while some are saying that it was the best method to demonstrate the serious security issue so it is a minor violation of Facebook terms and he should be rewarded.

After some minute of posting in Zuckerberg's timeline one of the Facebook security engineer commented in that post asking for details and after some minute Shreateh's Facebook account was blocked temporarily.



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