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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

North Korea made a Facebook clone and it was immediately hacked

A website registered in North Korea appeared on the Internet Friday. It was a social network that looked almost exactly like Facebook: a blue and white color scheme, a newsfeed, the ability to add friends, post statuses, like, comment and share.

After the news hit that the site existed,Motherboard reported that the site had been hacked by an 18-year-old college student from Scotland. 

After checking out the site, Andrew McKean clicked the Admin link at the bottom which brought up a login page. From there he guessed the username and password pretty easily: admin and password. ...