• Hacker Defaces Website Of Kenya Police In Tribute Of Mark Zuckerberg

    Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    A hacker has apparently defaced the website of Kenya’s law enforcement body (kenyapolice.go.ke), according to Nairobi, Kenya-based business reporter Larry Madowo.

    Sure enough, it appears the hacker did this in tribute of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

    The clearly unintentional welcoming message on the website homepage (the rest of the site seems to function fine) currently reads:

    “Got in and all i could think about was zuckerberg!!! This’ for you Mark!”

    (Click the image on top for a larger version, just in case things get fixed)

    Amusingly, the title tag for the page has also been ‘updated’, now reading “I’m CEO, BITCh!” (see here for the backstory on that).

    Setting a trend for website defacement in 2011?

    Update: it now reads “OK. Its not that big a deal! :P “.

    Person: Mark Zuckerberg
    Companies: Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with roomates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure. Earlier in life, Zuckerberg developed a music recommendation system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client called Wirehog. However, he abandoned both to pursue new projects. Zuckerberg...

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