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It was for only a few minutes, but on Tuesday, a hacker was in a position to gain access to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page and post a thoughtful status update.

The hacker’s message mused about why Facebook was going to the large banks for capital instead of selecting a “microfinancing” option and letting average individuals invest in the business.

The poster wrote: “Let the hacking start: If Facebook needs cash, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? What do you think? #hackercup2011″.

The hack was observed and deleted quickly. However it was up lengthy enough to generate more than 500 comments and have more than 1,800 individuals “like” the update.

Facebook has made no public statement about how the hack occurred and computer security professional Chris Davis, the CEO of Defence Intelligence, says it remains a mystery what happened.

“At this point we have no idea,” he told CTV’s Canada AM Monday from Ottawa.

Davis says on Tuesday evening, he logged on to some mailing lists within the security business that he’s component of and asked around, but everybody noted that Facebook is keeping quiet concerning the incident.

“They’re staying very tight-lipped about this,” Davis said. “I even know some security individuals at Facebook and I reached out to them and they came back with ‘Can’t speak about it.’”

Davis says it is possible that someone inside Facebook itself posted the message.

“The overwhelming opinion – and this really is just an opinion — is the fact that this was an inside job. It was a joke – maybe a joke gone wrong,” Davis said.

Some have suggested Zuckerberg might have been careless with his password and somebody was able to guess it. Or it may be that because Zuckerberg’s page is likely handled by numerous individuals, the hacker initial gained access to one of these assistants’ accounts and then got access towards the Zuckerberg page.

Another possibility is the fact that Zuckerberg was “sidejacked,” meaning his login particulars were stolen over the air through a wireless network. Finally, it is possible that Zuckerberg merely picked a password that was really simple to guess.

Davis notes that although the hack was large news to the rest with the globe, inside the web security industry, there has been nearly no communication about it at all.

“All the big security businesses – the Symantecs, the MacAfees, individuals like that — none of their researchers had been talking about it publicly.”

“I think it’s because Facebook is a US$50 billion business,” he said. “…If you’re a company like a Symantec or a MacAfee, you would like that business. You don’t wish to speak out of turn.”

Davis point out that the fallout could have been a lot worse.

“I find it fascinating that they when they got access like that, they went right after Zuckerberg’s page to essentially poke fun… when what they could have carried out with that is use it to hack or compromise hundreds of other systems of other people,” he stated.

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