Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page Hacked

The hacker has been hacked.

Earlier today, as spotted by TechCrunch, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page displayed a bizarre message echoing a line from faux-Zuckerberg in The Social Network:

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? #hackercup2011

The message received 1,800 likes and almost 500 comments before the page disappeared. It seems...unlikely that Zuckerberg himself composed the message, so we are left to conclude that some enterprising citizen made his way into the page. Facebook has not yet responded as to what occurred.

See the original page below (via TechCrunch):

Comments

[Christopher Koulouris]

04:49 PM on 01/27/2011

Facebook isn’t the culprit here, it’s just the catalyst. We’re the real problem; our sadistic fascination of sharing our entire lives voluntarily. That’s the problem. Even a behemoth like Facebook can’t save us from ourselves.

Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/01/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-explain-how-he-got-hacked/

[kinoptikation]

04:58 PM on 01/26/2011

Good.

[CMarks]

12:48 PM on 01/26/2011

I'm certain that I'm tech naive but would someone please explain to me how Facebook can be worth billions of dollars? That kind of valuation cannot be a result of advertizing revenue alone. I have made plenty of investments (thankfully mostly good) but wouldn't even consider putting my money into Facebook stock (should it become available) until I had some solid idea as to how they can generate profit. Any chance Bernie Madoff came up with the valuation number for this company?

[AllureAye]

05:44 PM on 01/26/2011

I can't really think of exactly how they'd be worth billions of dollars, but I do know they make quite a profit.

All of the eyes on the site (is it at 5 million users? I'm not sure of the exact number) equals lots of advertising opportunities. The entire world uses Facebook, as it is one of the MOST POPULAR websites on the entire internet. Lots of money from advertising is pouring in from small business, global enterprises, etc. Also, lots of intangible items from games/applications, such as the infamous 'Farmville', can be purchased via Facebook with their official currency (like buying virtual "land", "crops", etc.- never used it so I'm not 100% sure on what people are spending money on, but I get the gist) by linking a credit card or paypal account. This is also used for donating to charities, which is a good thing of course.

I'm sure we could all collaborate and make a list of how they make money, but I'm not sure how we'd get to the billions!

[J0E1]

06:02 PM on 01/26/2011

5 million?  Try 500 million.

[J0E1]

06:03 PM on 01/26/2011

In march of last year, facebooks homepage registered more hits per day than googles.  That's how much money they make off ad revenue.

[pissdoffinohio]

06:09 AM on 01/26/2011

Baaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[MikeyJaii]

02:12 AM on 01/26/2011

Ironic.

[deepfreezevideo]

01:40 AM on 01/26/2011

Facebook is DOWN as 12:40 am CST

[m1jones]

09:43 PM on 01/25/2011

Facebook and Google are pumping the market and salaries for engineers and tech whizzes with certain programming skills sky high to feed another Silicon Bubble. This one is going to be bigger than the .com bubble that took the Clinton Administration and US Budget into positive territory in the late 90's and crashed in 1999. Engineers and specific programmers who couldn't find work two years ago are now weighing offers from multiple well-heeled employers like Google and Facebook. G and F don't operate according to old fashioned economics - they create their own reality.

But there are a lot of auxiliary smaller, related networking sites, and a lot of gaming sites, which are also closely related.

End shot: this latest Silicon Bubble is also too hot not to cool down rapidly. Remember how aging stars die in the universe? First they get really big and really hot, expanding to thousands of times their original size. Then they fizzle, give off gases and become black holes. This may be a metaphor for what we are watching in Techland.

The 2 trillion dollars which Obama and his fellow Wall Streeters received by way of the bailout and favorable tax politcy is looking for high returns in this latest Silicon Bubble. But there are relatively small investors behind those billions of dollars flowing into social network and games. This is the pattern recently predicted by Paul Krugman, the Nobel Economist, NYT. It's deja vu, all over again!

[hypnotoad72]

07:26 PM on 01/25/2011

It's a shame they don't run Windows: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-work-nuts-bolts-technology-explained/ . No platform is secure. Anybody who claims they are secure is full of it, and anybody who takes no responsibility in security when providing web-based services should be RAN OUT OF TOWN. Sorry to use all upper-case.

[ahsregusted]

12:44 PM on 01/26/2011

Perhaps you mean "run" out of town?

[xsanetimes]

07:01 PM on 01/26/2011

This is a joke right. I have been working with Windows platforms since 3.1. Just because Facebook cant spend the time or money to secure their infrastructure don't blame the operating system.

[Nonso Christian Ugbode]

07:05 PM on 01/25/2011

I think this was a brilliant hack actually, made a case clearly and got attention for it. Why DOESN'T Facebook leverage investment from its millions of users? Because common folk can't pay what Goldman Sachs can.

[m1jones]

09:45 PM on 01/25/2011

Goldman Sachs is selling the $50 billion investment outside the US because they could not meet even our minimal SEC regulations in the US. This is the only good news I've heard. Maybe we are finally exporting some of our losses...

[Heretical-Eggs]

06:49 PM on 01/25/2011

"Nobel PRICE winner..." I lawled.