Hackers have broken into the account of none other than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Proof, as if it were needed, that everyone's online information is potentially at risk.
This case doesn't seem to be the work of criminals but someone apparently upset that Facebook is borrowing from banks.
"Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn't Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way?" read the strange post on Zuckerberg's page.
"Why not transform Facebook into a 'social business' the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? What do you think? #hackercup2011"
Before being taken down the post notched up 1,800 "likes".
"Facebook users - famous or not - need to take better care of their social networking security," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at online security experts Sophos.
Remember, make those passwords obscure and change them regularly. Though, not wanting to be too alarmist, it's probably worth pointing out that celebrities are more at risk than the rest of us if they're employing third parties to run their online social networks. As Sophos puts it: " an account which can be accessed by many different users with many different passwords is at greater risk than an account used by just one person."
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