We don’t know who they are, or what they want, but this person has somehow gotten access to Samsung’s Nigerian Facebook page.
Their first post appeared to be a lucid question — “whose fanpage was this” — it asked, without a question mark. Shortly afterwards, they let loose with a stream of half literate gibberish.
Because the hacker’s posts are barely comprehensible, we have no clue of what they’re likely to do next. One post suggests that they would like the page’s erstwhile handlers to email them to they can give the page back to its old manager…at least, that’s what we can deduce from this —
“un would like to bring back fanpagen old manager again Plase e-mail”
Too shy to publicly demand a ransom perhaps?
The last sane update on the page page appeared on the 2nd of January. The “hack” however — if that’s indeed what it is — seems to have happened ten days later, sometime around midnight this morning. We have no way of knowing whether the last moments of sanity on the page were indeed on the 2nd of January, or if the hacker has simply deleted their posts up till then.
So is this a hack in the real sense of the word, a genuinely malicious security breach? Or was someone just really careless? Whichever the case maybe, Samsung Nigeria is the latest to get burnt from what appears to be less than robust corporate social media strategy.
As at the time of this post, the page hasn’t been reclaimed. But since this latest brand-lol won’t be around for much longer, we took screenshots.
UPDATE: 6:06 pm – Samsung has regained possession of their fan page and have deleted the gibberish posts. No serious harm done — it only happened in full view of close to 170k fans for the better part of one day.
Fans react to Samsung Facebook hack —
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