
Palestinan Khalel Shreateh sits in front of his his computer
at his home in the West Bank town of Yatta south of
Hebron,
After discovering a privacy bug on Facebook, unemployed
Palestinian programmer Khalil Shreateh said he just wanted
to collect the traditional $500 bounty the social network
giant offers to those who voluntarily expose its glitches. But
when Facebook ignored his first two reports, Shreateh took
his message to the top and hacked into CEO Mark
Zuckerberg's personal page to prove his point.
The Vulnerability
The hacker Can Bypass any Privacy Settings to make a Post
on any Facebook account.as shown on the above Image.
After Contacting Several times tothe facebook authority to
inform the vulnerability no actionswere take on behalf. Khalil
Says he was Forced to post the Vulnerability report straight
on to the owner's of facebook Timeline, to make this bug
reported so that he can recieve his Bug Bounty amount.
After receiving the third bug report, a Facebook security engineer finally admitted the vulnerability but said that Khalil won’t be paid for reporting it because his actions violated the website’s security terms of service.
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