According to a BBC Report, Hackers said to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts. The perpetrators said that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell. However, Facebook says that its security has not been compromised. Accounts and the data related to them have probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions. Facebook added it had taken steps to prevent further accounts being affected. The account details that have been compromised are based in Ukraine and Russia. However, some are from the UK, US, Brazil and elsewhere. The hackers offered to sell access for 10 cents per account. The breach first came to light in September, when a post from a user nicknamed FBSaler appeared on an English-language internet forum. The user wrote "we sell personal information of Facebook users. Our database includes 120 million accounts." BBC independently was able to confirm that more than 81,000 of the profiles posted online as a sample contained private messages. Data from further 176,000 accounts were also made available, however, some of the information - including email addresses and phone numbers - could have been scraped from members who had not hidden it. ...
Friday, 2 November 2018
Hackers publish private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts, Rogue Browser extension blamed
According to a BBC Report, Hackers said to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts. The perpetrators said that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell. However, Facebook says that its security has not been compromised. Accounts and the data related to them have probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions. Facebook added it had taken steps to prevent further accounts being affected. The account details that have been compromised are based in Ukraine and Russia. However, some are from the UK, US, Brazil and elsewhere. The hackers offered to sell access for 10 cents per account. The breach first came to light in September, when a post from a user nicknamed FBSaler appeared on an English-language internet forum. The user wrote "we sell personal information of Facebook users. Our database includes 120 million accounts." BBC independently was able to confirm that more than 81,000 of the profiles posted online as a sample contained private messages. Data from further 176,000 accounts were also made available, however, some of the information - including email addresses and phone numbers - could have been scraped from members who had not hidden it. ...
