Facebook on Wednesday said a software “bug” let a hacker impersonate the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg in a comment posted to his public fan page at the website.
“A bug enabled status postings by unauthorised people on a handful of public pages,” said a Facebook spokesperson . “The bug has been fixed.”
Pictures of the hacked page could be found at technology news blog TechCrunch and other online venues.
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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 Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it? http://bit.ly/fs6rT3 What do you think?”
It was signed “#hackercup2011,” an apparent reference to an international computer programming competition being held by Facebook.
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