Facebook's Official U.K. Account Was 'Hacked' By A Bemused Internet User Who Proceeded To Post About Cricket And Pakistan's Ex-Prime Minister

A man found himself curiously logged into Facebook's official U.K. account late last week, and after expressing some disbelief, he began to post about cricket, YouTube and Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister.

At around 10:40 p.m. local time, a purported "hacker" began posting a flurry of Facebook status updates from the social media giant's U.K. account, beginning with a post that simply read, "No idea why I suddenly have access to post stuff as Facebook. Or have I got it completely wrong and I'm not posting as Facebook UK?"

The user went on to post his qualms with India's handling of the cricket World Cup, cribbing about how the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had banned Pakistani journalists and fans from visiting India to watch the World Cup in 2023.

The man also posted not one but two status updates asking for the "release" of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, although the politician had long won a legal case against him and has remained free since the end of August 2023.

The user also shared some posts in an attempt to be heartwarming or wholesome, an endearing sentiment that was nonetheless undercut by the user's evident bemusement at holding the position of power he briefly did.

Facebook administrators then noticed that its U.K. account was running amok at some point during the night, after which the profile was temporarily inaccessible to the public.

However, the "hacker" had already pointed toward his X profile, where he continued to share his musings while insisting that he did not quite understand how he came into possession of the Facebook account, refusing to wreak too much havoc.

Some internet users theorized about how the random user came into possession of the Facebook U.K. account, with the "hacker" and onlookers both deducing that it was either a one-in-a-million "token" blip or the result of human error.

In retaliation for his perceived "crimes," the man purportedly lost access to all Meta accounts connected to his IP address, something he insisted he wasn't too shaken up about, besides the fact that he lost access to some choice photos.