Facebook: We Failed Timeline Hacker

After a frustrated Palestinian hacker broke into Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline to report a bug, Facebook acknowledged today that they shouldn't have ignored him. But, despite Facebook's mea culpa, the hacker may still walk away empty handed.

"I understand his frustration. He tried to report the bug responsibly, and we failed in our communication with him," wrote Joel Sullivan, Facebook's Chief Security Officer, in a post addressing the incident

Early last week, Khalil Shreateh discovered a vulnerability that allowed him to post on the Timeline of people who weren't his friends on Facebook Read more...