In all the hub-bub about a new Facebook hack that impacted up to 90 million Facebook users, there is some good news for Facebook.
A Taiwanese hacker announced to the world he has canceled his plans to conduct a cyber attack on the company.
Specifically, Chang Chi-yuan had promised to live stream himself hacking and then deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page on Sunday, September 30, 2018.
Bloomberg did a great write-up on this Facebook hacking promise:
"I am canceling my live feed, I have reported the bug to Facebook and I will show proof when I get bounty from Facebook," Chang, who has more than 26,000 followers on Facebook, told Bloomberg News.
In post on his Facebook page Friday, Chang said he’s canceling the attack on the Facebook chief executive and broadcast to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Trouble indeed.
And his approach is certainly out of the norm for white hat hackers, who typically reveal vulnerabilities to companies in secret in return for a bounty payment.
If Chi-yuan did, in fact, deliver a verifiable bug submission to the company, it would certainly lead to some unusual behind the scenes conversations.
Should we pay a hacker who told the world he would hack us and promised to delete our CEO's digital presence?
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall for those conversations.
