North Korea's Facebook clone hacked in a day

A new social media platform called 'Best Korea’s Social Network' was recently hosted on a North Korean server. The platform was a replica of Facebook. The website was discovered by Dyn Research, a company responsible for tracking internet performance.

However, a few hours after the launch of the website, an 18-year-old college student from Scotland, Andrew McKean, broke through the securities of the website and got access to its administration panel.

After the hack, the Scottish hacker boasted about his success in accessing to site's admin panel on the microblogging website Twitter.

In an interview with The Telegraph, McKean said, he had guessed the security credentials for the site after discovering that the default ones for phpDolphin – the backend software the Facebook clone used – were the predictable “admin” and “password”.

As the credentials were not changed from the default while setting up the website, McKean was able to gain control of it easily.   

McKean pulled down advertisements from the website and left a message, "Uh, I didn’t create this site just found the login."

However, McKean changed his Twitter settings to private on Wednesday. Hence, the tweet was not accessible.