LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Facebook Inc. FB, -0.89% has already created a feature -- or at least a prototype -- for its mobile app that allows payments and money transfers, according to a TechCrunch report Sunday, which included screenshots from an alleged hacking of the software. The report said a Stanford University student came across the payment feature on Facebook Messenger while using a developer tool called Cycrypt to study the app's iOS code via his jailbroken iPhone. "Messenger's payment option lets users send money [to each other] in a message, similar to how they can send a photo," the report said, adding that "users can add a debit card in Messenger, or use one they already have on file with Facebook." However, the report also said that in discussing possible payment options on Facebook's app, the social network's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's last earnings call that such a system wouldn't arrive anytime in the near term. "We're going to take the time to do this in the way that is going to be right over multiple years," it quoted Zuckerberg as saying.