An anonymous hacker left Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg red faced after he gained access to the entrepreneurs Facebook profile, but rather than going on a rampage, the hacker took the opportunity to pitch an idea of letting Facebook users invest in the company, rather than the banks.
The message read: "Let the hacking begin: 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? #hackercup2011".
The page belonging to the 26-year-old Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder who was named Time’s Man of the Year in 2010, was hacked some time on Tuesday.
It is not clear how the break-in occurred, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security company Sophos. "Mark Zuckerberg might be wanting to take a close look at his privacy and security settings after this embarrassing breach," he noted. "It’s not clear if he was careless with his password, was phished, or sat down in a Starbucks and got sidejacked [had his login details stolen over the air] while using an unencrypted wireless network.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy was also hacked just days ago and a message was left suggesting that he was resigning. However, after regaining control of the account, he made it known that he would run for President in the next election.
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