After white hat researcher hacks Mark Zuckerberg's timeline, Facebook vows to improve communication

Facebook CEO and Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg loves building a hacker culture, but when his own timeline was hacked, things got a little serious.

White hat research Khalil Shreateh tried to get Facebook’s attention regarding a bug that would allow a hacker to post to anyone’s timeline, but didn’t get much of a response from the company. Facebook responded to Shreateh, saying that what he brought to their attention was not a bug. Feeling that his claims were falling on deaf ears, Shreateh went all out and hacked into Zuckerberg’s timeline.

Facebook responded, saying that the white hat program “failed,” in its communication with Shreateh.

In a post on the Facebook Security blog, Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan outlined changes that will happen as a result of the snafu:

We should have explained to this researcher that his initial messages to us did not give us enough detail to allow us to replicate the...