Remember our friendly whitened chapeau hacker , Khalil Shreateh , who got stiffed on his just wages after identifying a Facebook bug that let him place on Zuckerberg ’s paries ? Well , bet like the cyber-terrorist community has no design of letting their buddy ’s banking company account pass to the wayside . After setting up a fundraising movement onGoFundMe , security researcher Marc Maiffret has successfully pull in $ 10,000 in donations for Shreateh — a full 20 clip more than Facebook ’s withheld offering .
https://gizmodo.com/a-guy-hacked-zucks-wall-after-facebook-ignored-his-bug-1163729527
It all started when the Palestinian hacker posted what might have been the kindest , most polite ill ( or congratulate , for that matter ) that Facebook has ever received , which would normally have warranted him the $ 500 bounty Facebok offeres for bring out a security vulnerability . There was just one little problem ; he brand it by hacking his manner onto Zuck ’s paries — and apparently , Zuck ’s already got all the friends he needs , give thanks you very much . So claim that Shreateh desecrate Facebook ’s terms by “ exploit bug to impact material users , ” Facebook deny him the reward money .
And that ’s when Maiffret step in . He get his offset as a software investigator by exposing the flaw in tech companies ’ software , so he naturally sympathized with this noble youthful upstart . He was a little more impish in his aims than Shreateh seems , however . At 17 , Maiffret ’s home was raided by the FBI — and he ’d done so much illegal hacking , he had no approximation what the exact offensive was . As he toldBloomberg Businessweek :
I had aboveboard hack everything from government systems to [ Microsoft ] to you name it , a good three years of hacking . These days there ’s a much bigger temptingness , and if you ’re getting into hacking and research , there are essentially two path ahead of you .
Now , though , he ’s back to using his powers for good , and companionship have , for the most part , wised up . Facebook has give out over $ 1 million to white hat hackers for their assistance in expose various flaws and bugs that would otherwise go unnoticed .
Which is a big cause why , when Facebook second out of its promise , Maiffret want to make trusted that a hacker who actually did the ripe affair grow what he deserve . favorable for Shreateh , so did a plenty of other people . For kindhearted hackers ’ sakes , here ’s to Facebook holding back cash more often . [ Bloomberg Businessweek ]
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