Yesterday the Facebook account of the researcher (Khalil) who hacked Mark Zuckerberg’s timeline to report a BUG was hacked, that was recovered after approximate 5 hours.
Today, we would like Introduce with that boy who hacked Khalil’s FB account, his name is Mohamed El Boukioty from Morocco and he is just 17 Years old, he told us about the process that he used to hack Khalil’s account.
Let’s start from the Beginning:
First he message Khalil for a Security Vulnerability of his email but he didn’t responded him, after that he tried to crack the password of his email through a security question and luckily he got succeeded, then he used that email account ([email protected]) to reset Khalil’s Facebook password, that’s it he was in.
After the hack, Mohd. posted a status, which reads:
I’m not a hacker , I just want to warn Mr Khalil !
He will recover his account soon …
I’m sorry everybody .
After 3 Hours of hacked status, Facebook took down Khalil’s account and gave him back after an hour. After Khalil got his account back he posted a False status that his account was hacked through a Brute Force Attack, which took 2 weeks to crack his password, in result of this false status Mohd. sent a message in which he requested Khalil to tell the people truth but he didn’t reply.
Khalil posted False Status of Brute Force Attack:
Mohd. requested him to tell the Truth:
Mohd. also sent us some screenshots of Khalil’s Mail and facebook account to prove “He was in”:
You can also check out more images of Khalil’s account on Mohd’s personal blog.
Horribly written