Facebook hacked, usernames and passwords extractedApril 27, 2016 - 12:31 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook has been hacked, with a number of usernames and passwords extracted, Digital Spy said. There's no need to hit panic stations though, as it turns out the hacker responsible isn't a total wrong-un, Digital Spy said. Instead of targeting Facebook with malicious intent, hacker Orange Tsai used his firewall-dodging wizardry to find a weakness in the social network's internal server systems in order to earn money. Not by selling the usernames and passwords he managed to extract either, but by alerting Facebook to the weaknesses. Having compromised the company's systems back in February, digital bounty hunter Tsai immediately alerted Facey-B, receiving a $10,000 reward two weeks later. It turns out the weakness discovered had been placed there by another white hat hacker, with Facebook suggesting the breach actually highlighted the rigidity of its security measures. "Neither of them were able to compromise other parts of our infrastructure, so the way we see it, it's a double win," Facebook Security Engineer Reginaldo Silva told Betanews. "Two competent researches assessed the system, one of them reported what he found to us and got a good bounty, none of them were able to escalate access." Facebook said the issue has since been fixed. Photo: Reuters Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |