How Mark Zuckerberg’s Fan Page Got Hacked

Security has breached and Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page is hacked by an unknown hacker. It is so shocking news when Facebook is promising the Facebook security and privacy for a user. Now Facebook’s CEO’s Fan page is hacked by an unknown hacker and posted a message on his wall saying :-

“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 Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? [LINK] What do you think? #hackercup2011″

As soon as the message posted on the wall it grabbed more than 1800 likes and bizarre comments. So far Facebook team has no answer to this hack attempt and they have taken down this fan page. So if you type his name “Mark Zuckerberg” on the search you are going to see a page like below.

So what do you expect from Facebook  when they can’t secure their own CEO’s fan page? How can they promise that your Facebook account is safe?

We can easily confirm that it is hacked; but now we need to find answer for many questions!

If someone was there on behalf to take care of his account and fan page? Also note sure if Mark had simple password set or even was it a phishing attack! But however it has happened and given a bad image to Facebook’s security!

So what can you do to secure your Facebook to avoid embarrassing moment?

• Do not add unwanted applications to your Facebook profile.
• Use Facebook List effectively to control privacy on album or other contents
• Remove if there is any unwanted apps are hooked in to the Facebook profile. (Go to Privacy Settings and then edit Apps and Websites settings)
• Control the Basic information to share with people (Go to Privacy Settings and then click on Connecting to Facebook settings)
• Then choose at least 7 characters long password with mixed lettering.

We will post more news about this soon!