Hackers took over Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page yesterday, in a bid to persuade the website’s founder to adopt a new funding policy.
In place of Zuckerberg’s profile page, hackers posted a message calling for social funding of the social network.
“If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? What do you think?”
More than 1,800 people “liked” the update before Facebook took down the page.
The latest security hiccough came days after French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s account was hacked and adds to concerns over Facebook’s much-criticised security shortcomings.
“Mark Zuckerberg might want to take a close look at his privacy and security settings after this embarrassing breach,” said Graham Cluley, a spokesman for security company Sophos. “It’s not clear if he was careless with his password, was phished, or sat down in a Starbucks and got sidejacked while using an unencrypted wireless network.
“However it happened, it’s left egg on his face just when Facebook wants to reassure users that it takes security and privacy seriously.”
Facebook declined to comment.
Additional reporting by Stewart Mitchell, PC Pro.
