Major news on Techcrunch, part of the source code of Facebook has been leaked. This either means that Facebook was hacked or is going open source. This is a big deal, this means people might have your password and information. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was done using some API bug since it is one of the most recent updates on Facebook. The source code for the main or home page was posted on a blog called Facebook Secrets. The question is how much longer will it last ?

From reading the source code you can tell that is not very well organized, seems a bit amateur. But then again it was started by college students who were still learning and are still probably learning. Now how secure is Facebook ? How much damage will it bring to the “company” that was just starting to get extremely popular ?

Update: An “official” response has been given at TechCrunch :

Hi Nic-

I wanted to clarify a few things in your story. Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that was misconfigured and then fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.

Thanks to you and the TC readers for helping us out on this one.

Brandee Barker
Facebook

Yasser