{"id":29569,"date":"2013-08-22T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29569"},"modified":"2013-08-22T18:10:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T14:10:51","slug":"the-hacker-who-broke-into-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-will-get-a-12000-reward-from-online-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29569","title":{"rendered":"The hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Facebook page will get a $12,000 reward from online donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29565\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mark-Zuckerberg.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mark-Zuckerberg-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mark-Zuckerberg-438x300.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>The hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Facebook Timeline to expose a security lapse will be awarded nearly $12,000 from an online crowdsourced campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/3znhjs\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe <\/a>campaign has raised $11,741 for Khalil Shreateh, of Palestine, who claims he was forced to hack into Zuckerberg&#8217;s page to bring attention to the security vulnerability because Facebook had ignored his earlier warnings.<\/p>\n<p>The bug that Shreateh found allowed him to post on the Timelines of people who weren&#8217;t his Facebook friends.<\/p>\n<p>Shreateh first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn\u2019t a bug.<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, Shreateh used the glitch to hack his way onto Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sorry for breaking your privacy,\u2019 he wrote in a since removed post to Zuckerberg, \u2018I had no other choice\u2026after all the reports I sent to Facebook team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, his pleas were answered. Facebook contacted him demanding to know how he\u2019d hacked their bosses personal page.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We fixed this bug on Thursday,\u2019 wrote Matt Jones from Facebook\u2019s security team in a Saturday post on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6230803\" target=\"_blank\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker who broke into Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Facebook Timeline to expose a security lapse will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,143,137],"tags":[2074,2073],"class_list":["post-29569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-000-reward-from-online-donors","tag-the-hacker-who-broke-into-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-will-get-a-12","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}