Whopper Sacrifice Hacked



There's a line of JavaScript that you can enter into your browser's address bar while at Whopper Sacrifice's Facebook page and get to the coupon claim page without de-friending anyone. The hack is described here in one of the comments. The page screenshot is below.

Update [Jan 13, 2009]: Looks like the hole has been patched up.





Update [Jan 14, 2009] Looks like it's over (due to privacy concerns by Facebook). From 14,230 sacrifices on January 8 to 232,654 a week later.

5 comments:

  1. This hack doesn't work...

    ReplyDelete
  2. It impressive to see the lengths people will go to for a free $3 burger. There is a group on Facebook where people add each other just so that they can 'sacrifice' non-friends, and one guy even put out a Craigslist ad looking for people to friend and then un-friend. The amount of press coverage BK has received from this as is more than worth the few bits of negative publicity that they've received.

    I definitely loved it: http://thefutureofads.com/2009/01/09/burger-king-lets-people-sacrifice-friendships-for-whoppers/

    ReplyDelete
  3. The main hack times out, but check out the one line of javascript in the last (as of today) comment.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Sorry, this comment from Guv'nah got accidentally deleted:"

    @ Ilya - Neither of those JS functions work. Second one redirects to www.whoppersacrifice.com. Think they already fixed the holes in the code.

    ReplyDelete
  5. check out sacrifice now.

    ReplyDelete

I am moderating all comments to weed out spam (there's a lot of it). Comments are usually approved within a day.

Related Posts with Thumbnails