Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page hacking prompts security changes at Facebook
27 Jan 2011
Facebook said on Wednesday it will soon launch new security measures including a secure https connection and a social authentication system for users.
The announcement comes a day after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's fan page was hacked into on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg's fan page, which has about three million fans, is this week's second high profile hacking on the popular social networking website following that of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy's hacked account had said that the leader would not be running for re-election.
Zukerberg's fan page saw a post under his name that suggested Facebook should go the social way with its business too, clearly pointing to the recent Goldman Sachs investment in the social network. (See: Facebook raises $1.5 bn in new, Goldman-led funding)
The post said, ''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 Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it?''
Muhammad Yunus had won the Nobel peace prize in 2006 for providing loans to poor people without any collateral.
Further the post provided a link, ''http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think? #hackercup2011,'' which took one to a Wikipedia page about ''social business'' with the #hackercup2011 signature alluding to Facebook's international programming competition.
