There have been a number of bugs and glitches on Facebook throughout the years, but a Palestinian programmer was able to take advantage of one he recently found. Khalil Shreateh, an unemployed programmer, hacked into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal page and insisted on collecting $500.
The amount is reportedly legit as Facebook does offer it to those who are able to expose its glitches and Shreateh was able to do this in the most bold of ways.
“Sorry for breaking your privacy,” he wrote the Facebook founder, “I has no other choice to make after all the reports I sent to Facebook team … as you can see iam not in your friend list and yet I can post to your timeline.”
For Shreateh, the adventure of hacking into the profile of the top man on the world’s largest social media networking website, has certainly gotten him a lot more recognition than he could have ever hoped for. The 30-year-old is heard to have received numerous job offers along with praise for achieving what seemed to be unachievable.
Sadly, Shreateh has failed in finding a job ever since he graduated with a degree in information technology. Currently, he is living near the West Bank city of Beron and is believed to have just wanted to make a point instead of gaining fame out of the act.
“As a few other commenters have pointed out, we get hundreds of reports every day,” Facebook software engineer Matthew Jones wrote to the Hacker News. “Many of our best reports come from people whose English isn’t great — though this can be challenging, it’s something we work with just fine and we have paid out over $1 million to hundreds of reporters. However, many of the reports we get are nonsense or misguided, and even those … provide some modicum of reproduction instructions.”
Unfortunately, the Palestinian programmer will not be getting the bounty that he had hoped for because of a violation of the company’s policy in regards to pointing out problems in the code. According to Facebook, it is not acceptable behaviour to post items to Facebook pages of users on their behalf. This obviously saddened Shreateh but is now looking forward to exploring the various opportunities ahead of him that have materialized from all of this.
Source: CTV News
Facebook has also reportedly fixed the bug on Thursday and was not willing to comment any further on the scenario.
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