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Post by bluedogz on Jul 28, 2010 3:07:52 GMT -7
Allen, it would appear your Facebook has been hacked. If I'm wrong, then thanks for notes about the free iPad, but I don't think I'm wrong. ;D
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Post by ann58 on Jul 28, 2010 12:02:55 GMT -7
bluedogz, I am getting the same emails. I wondered where they were coming from
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Post by ann- on Jul 29, 2010 1:40:32 GMT -7
bluedogz, I am getting the same emails. I wondered where they were coming from Facebook was mentioned on GMTV news this morning .... apparrently someone has hacked in and taken information and put it on to, I think Google or similar.It is only taking the basic information you have put on your info page ... depending on privacy settings .... so need to check you have set the privacy settings as you want them ... unfortunately though anything already taken is on the net and can't do much about them. The key things they were mentioning, were people putting info like their first pet or favourite animal or something, as that information could be used potentially to try and hack into people's password settings. |
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Post by allenuk on Jul 29, 2010 3:36:24 GMT -7
Thanks for that, and no, I haven't taken up trying to flog iPad stuff!
I shall look at my Facebook page and shut the thing down if necessary...
Allen.
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Post by ampgk on Jul 29, 2010 5:42:38 GMT -7
Might have been some address spoofing going on, pretty common. I didn't see Anne's GMTV piece, but it sounds like this: 100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
Who forgot their security settings, then?
28 July, 2010
A directory containing personal details about more than 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on an Internet file-sharing site.
The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook's open access directory, which lists all users who haven't bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines.
Bowes' directory contains 171 million entries, relating to more than 100 million individual users - more than one in five of Facebook's recently trumpeted half billion user base.
The file contains user account names and a URL for each user's profile page, from which details such as addresses, dates of birth or phone numbers can be accessed. Accessing a user's page from the list will also enable you to click through to friends' profiles - even if those friends have made themselves non-searchable.
There's absolutely nothing illegal about what Bowes has done - the information is, after all, publicly available - but perhaps the existence of a stalker's online black book might finally persuade less security-minded Facebook users to get their arses in gear.ref: www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-torrent-site/ |
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