Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page hacked, defaced, shut

The social business refers to the existence of an organization for a "non-loss, non-dividend" primarily to further a social cause. The returns from the operations are ploughed back into the system to further the reach of the organization.

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While it's highly skeptical that the hacker's financial advice was heeded too, since Facebook raised $1.5 billion in an investment round led by Goldman Sachs, the issue of privacy is back to haunt Facebook as it was not able to offer a plausible explanation as to how the hack occurred.

However, Sophos explains that fan sites of celebrities are maintained by a marketing team rather than an individual, due to heavy traffic. Such an arrangement ensures that multiple people have access to the site with different passwords issued to each user. Accounts with multiple passwords are easier to hack as all it requires is one disgruntled employee who is willing to part with the details.

Most recently in December 2010 Facebook was under attack from Tunisian government which gained access to Facebook pages of political protestors. The Atlantic reported that "the country's Internet service providers were running a malicious piece of code that was recording users' login information when they went to sites like Facebook". Thus Facebook passwords were stolen right in the midst of the greatest political upheaval in two decades in Tunisia.

Even French president Nicolas Sarkozy's Facebook account was recently hacked and a message was left saying the French president would not seek re-election this year.