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...regretting starting the script too early—juicy scandals and charged accusations surrounding the social networking Web site just keeps surfacing. A week after Facebook experienced privacy issues, Facebook founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg '06 was accused of hacking into student e-mail and social network ConnectU accounts before dropping out of Harvard...
According to Business Insider, Zuckerberg hacked into the personal e-mail accounts of then-Crimson editors to preview the newspaper’s take on his legal dispute with the founders of a rival social network ConnectU, which eventually ended in a $65 million settlement. In another article, Business Insider charged Zuckerberg with hacking into ConnectU accounts in order to ridicule the ConnectU founders (by creating fake profiles that mocked one of them as "WASP-y") and deactivating some 20 accounts in an attempt to reduce competition...
...mails Zuckerberg supposedly intercepted was between Elisabeth S. Theodore '05, then The Crimson's managing editor, and Timothy J. McGinn '06, a Crimson reporter investigating the Facebook/ConnectU authorship controversy. Both declined to comment on the hacking incident for this post. ConnectU founders Divya K. Narendra '04 and Cameron S.H. Winklevoss '04 also declined to comment, citing legal reasons, while the other ConnectU founder, Tyler O.H. Winklevoss '04, was not able to be reached as of this posting...
...California-based legal publication revealed Tuesday that Facebook.com paid $65 million to settle accusations that its founder Mark E. Zuckerberg ’07 stole elements from rival social networking site ConnectU to create his multi-billion dollar Web site. The Recorder obtained the information from an inadvertent disclosure in the January newsletter of Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver and Hedges, the law firm that represented ConnectU until it was fired last spring. In 2004, ConnectU founders Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04, Tyler O. H. Winklevoss, ’04, and Divya K. Narendra...
...These things tend to fade away fairly quickly,” O’Brien said. “I think people know about the lawsuit between ConnectU and Facebook, but they [don’t] know much about...