Social networking site Facebook has been embroiled in yet another privacy scandal, this time its founder Mark Zuckerberg allegedly caught breaking into email accounts.
The CEO and founder has been accused by US-based business magazine Business Insider of breaking into the accounts of two journalists.
The accusations come after a two-year investigation by the magazine into the origins of Facebook.
The magazine alleges Zuckerberg used inside information taken from an early version of Facebook to access emails between student journalist after the Harvard Crimson planned to write a story about rival social media website ConnectU in 2004.
Facebook told Business Insider, "We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources who seek to rewrite Facebook’s early history or embarrass Mark Zuckerberg with dated allegations.
“The unquestioned fact is that since leaving Harvard for Silicon Valley nearly six years ago, Mark has led Facebook's growth from a college website to a global service playing an important role in the lives of over 400 million people."
Despite than many thousands of complaints Facebook has received whenever it launches over various privacy issues, the social network believes that users no longer have an expectation of privacy.
Speaking on the final day of the Consumer Electronics Show in the US earlier this year, Zuckerberg said that privacy is no longer the "social norm" and that the rise of social media online reflected changing attitudes among ordinary people, changing radically over the past few years.
Privacy issues with regards to personal information on the internet has always been a controversial subject - especially when it comes to marketing and how consumers are reached via the information they leave on websites.
But Zuckerberg thinks that people have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.
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