A Taiwanese hacker named Chang Chi-yuan has claimed he would
take down Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page in a live broadcast before appearing
to pull out of the plan.
Chang Chi-yuan told his 27,000 followers he would target the
Facebook founder's own account this Sunday. Then he backtracked today and said
he would instead demand money from Facebook in return for flagging up the
glitch to Facebook. He added that he had
not expected the world's media to pick up on his plans.
Chang describes himself as a "bug bounty-hunter"
who claims to have exposed flaws in a series of high-profile companies' security
systems, Bloomberg reports.
In the post he said: "Broadcasting the deletion of
Facebook founder Zuck's account. Scheduled to go live".
Some commenters had criticised his plans, with one saying:
"Listen man, if you really have a bug that can take over Zuck's page, I
don't recommended you do it.
You can just inform them about that bug and you will get
rewarded for this."
Another said: "It’s really sad to prove your strength
by hurting others.”
Later Chang wrote in a comment: "I am canceling my live
feed. I have reported the bug to Facebook and I will show proof when i get
bounty from Facebook.
The Taiwanese social media celebrity has previously said:
"I don't want to be a proper hacker, and I don't even want to be a hacker
at all. I'm just bored and try to dabble so that I can earn some money."
He claims to have targeted the software of major
corporations including Apple and Elon Musk's Tesla.
