Last week in North Korea created a clone of Facebook, pithily called 'Best Korean Social Network.' Then someone decided to hack it, and succeeded literally hours later. Lol.
The person in question is an 18-year-old college student from Scotland called Andrew McKean. Andrew posted a message in a 'Sponsored' box with this message: 'Uh, I didn’t create this site just found the login.'
You’re probably wondering how he was able to hack it, so here’s how. Andrew clicked on the 'Admin' link, guessed the username and password (which wasn’t hard, it was literally just ‘admin’ and ‘password’) and gained admin rights. As easy as pie, 123, and all other easy things like adding 1+1. Guessing their logins means he had full control of the site and could do anything he wanted, in the world ever. OK not in the world ever, but in Best Korean Social Network land, land he was a God.
Perhaps sensibly, Andrew left it at that. Leaving the network administrators to update their security settings, pronto.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.