Prize For Facebook Hacker
Aug 24, 2013, by admin
Few days before Facebook founder and CEO account was hacked by a Palestinian hacker Khalil Shreateh to to expose a security lapse in facebook The GoFundMe campaign has raised $11,741 for Khalil Shreateh, of Palestine, who claims he was forced to hack into Zuckerberg’s page to bring attention to the security vulnerability because Facebook had ignored his earlier warnings.
Maiffret wrote an update on the campaign page, thanking all the donors and underlining the reasons why he launched the reward effort.
“I hope this has raised awareness of the importance of independent researchers,” he wrote. “I equally hope it has reminded other researchers that while working with technology companies can sometimes be frustrating, we can never forget the greater goal; to help the Internet community at large, just as that community has helped donate over ten thousand dollars to Khalil within a day”
Facebook has a ‘Bug Bounty’ program that pays out at least $500 to hackers who bring software bugs to the company’s attention.
Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, explained the company’s decision in a post online.
“We will not change our practice of refusing to pay rewards to researchers who have tested vulnerabilities against real users,’ he wrote. ‘It is never acceptable to compromise the security or privacy of other people. In this case, the researcher could have sent a more detailed report (like the video he later published), and he could have used one of our test accounts to confirm the bug.”
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