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September 28, 2018 05:59 pm GMT

Hacker backpedals on his brazen threat to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account

Can this hacker really delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account?

A Taiwanese bug bounty-hunter claimed this week that he would delete Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's account and promised to stream the attack live on Facebook.

Now, in an unexpected twist, he’s backtracking on his promise to livestream the deletion of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account —  but not on the claim that he found a severe vulnerability within Facebook.

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The scandal first broke when Bloomberg reported on a scheduled Facebook Event created by the 23-year-old Taiwanese hacker Chang Chi-yuan in which the hacker described "live-streaming the deletion of [Facebook] founder Zuck's account."  Read more...

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