Facebook founder accused of hacking into emails of rivals and journalists

Following a two-year investigation on the founding of Facebook, the magazine Business Insider has disclosed what it claimed was evidence of the 2004 hackings by Zuckerberg.

On the first occasion, one article claims, when Zuckerberg discovered that Harvard's student newspaper The Crimson was planning on running an article on him in 2004, he allegedly used reporters' Facebook logins to hack into their accounts.

On the second occasion, another article alleges, the Facebook founder hacked into the accounts of rivals at Harvard who accused him of stealing their idea for a social network. He then tried to sabotage the rival network they had set up, according to Business Insider.

The magazine claimed that Zuckerberg heard The Crimson was about to write an article on him when he was phoned for an interview in 2004.

The newspaper was looking into allegations by other Harvard students that Zuckerberg had stolen their social networking idea, which are now well-documented and became the subject of a $65million lawsuit.


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