Bangalore: Palestinian developer and hacker, Khalil Shreateh, who hacked into Zuckerberg’s Facebook account is getting rewards as money from fellow hackers around the world after the Facbook declined to pay him under a program that normally rewards people for reporting flaws, reports Reuters.

Marc Maiffret, the Chief Technology Officer of a security firm, BeyondTrust, is on a mission to mobile the fellow hackers to raise a $10,000 reward for Shreateh. Maiffret, a high school dropout and self-taught hacker, has raised about $9,000 so far, including the $2,000 he initially contributed.

He and other hackers say that the social networking giant has unfairly denied Shreateh the bounty which he deserves under the company’s "Bug Bounty" program. The program doles out at least $500 to individuals who bring software bugs to the company's attention.

Khalil Shreateh discovered a security flaw on Facebook, a loophole to bypass Privacy and Security settings of any random Facebook user and to post on their timeline. He claimed to have sent a full description of the bug with proof of its existence through screenshots of live exploits he made on the timeline of Mark’s former college classmate, Sarah Goodin.

Unfortunately the Facebook Security employee didn’t give the needed attention to his repeated bug reports and only sent back a short intimation which stated: “I’m sorry this is not a bug”. This left the Palestinian hacker no other choice but to report the issue to Facebook CEO, right on his timeline.

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