Facebook account hacked: NOT IN LONDON!
My Facebook account was attacked in a method detailed in this online story. Except, in my case, my password and email address were not changed — although they should have been.
If you hear of a Facebook friend in London without a penny, take a moment to check their story — it’s most likely a scam that’s seeped into the social network … Facebook user accounts have been hacked, opening them up to scammers who then use it to send live chat messages to their friends asking for help…
The messages claimed the person was “on a trip to London, but had been mugged, and was now marooned without passport or cash somewhere in North London”.
I was able to change my password, log off, log in again, and post a message to my peeps that the hacker was not me.
Now FB has disabled my account, presumably to make sure everything is fixed, as the story linked to above mentions. This means that, most likely, that Facebook is either monitoring IPs or IMs.
Have I mentioned how much I fucking hate Facebook?
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March 2nd, 2010 at 10h25
If they had my password, then my lowest-security password (that used with FB) is hacked all over the web now. It’s not used for anything relating to money, and is different from Twitter, my website, my hosting account, my domain names, Metafilter, etc — but is in lots of other places. I don’t even have a list of those.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10h09
Facebook is a filthy whore.