A Moroccan Hacker Discovers A Security Breach Bug In Facebook

by | posted: April 26, 2014 1 comment

Omar Azkagh, a 22 year old hacker from Tanja in Morocco, discovered a security bug in Facebook pages and gets FB Hackawarded for it.

The bug is a security breach related to pages on the social network which allows users to easily gain admin access to those pages and steal them from their owners.

Facebook investigated the matter and after verifying the matter and closing the gap, it awarded Omar a “bug bounty payout” for the amount of $4250.

Omar is now officially the 4th Moroccan hacker to be included in the list of “” members who help Facebook identify bugs in its site and solve them. Below is a screen shot of the email from Facebook to Omar.

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That is definitely a great news for the Arab world which is showing the world everyday how tech savvy and capable are its youth. We still think that Facebook should reconsider the prizes amounts it pays out to hackers. What do you think?

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Hussein M. Dajani

Hussein has over 12 years of solid Marketing Communication experience in the space leading and building integrated marketing practices within multinational agencies (JWT, Leo Burnett, and TBWA\) and client side (Fortune 500 companies - Virgin Mobile and Red Bull), across the Middle East and Africa region. Other than being the Co-Founder and Chief Blogger of Tfour.me, Hussein is working as a Marketing Communications Consultant in the MENA region, as a Digital and Social Media Marketing Lecturer at DM3 Institute, and as a Mentor at Turn8, part of i360accelerator. For more details about Hussein, please visit: http://about.me/husseindajani

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One Response to “A Moroccan Hacker Discovers A Security Breach Bug In Facebook”

  1. Reply
    Aziz Hoummani
    September 4, 2014 at 5:02 pm #

    Alsalamoualykom,

    J’espere que vous vous portez tres bien.
    Je suis Marocain , et j’ai besoin de l’aide de Omar.
    SVP est ce que vous pouvez me donnez l’email do Omar

    Merci

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