Hackers Are Selling Access to Private Facebook Data for 10 Cents per Account

[cageymaru]

Often politicians, researchers, corporate entities and citizens discuss the human toll of social media hacks and fierce debates ensue from those crimes, pertaining to what private account data is worth. Hackers in Russia have attached a price tag of 10 cents per account as they attempt to sell Facebook account private messages on a website infected with the LokiBot Trojan. They claim to have access to 120 million Facebook accounts and allowed the private cyber-security company Digital Shadows access to scraped data from 257,000 accounts. Pictures, messages, email addresses, phone numbers, and more were posted in plain sight for pennies.

Facebook said its security had not been compromised. And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions. Facebook added it had taken steps to prevent further accounts being affected.

 

[Joust]

So. They are selling specific account info or mass account info? Sucks either way, but I am curious if they were targeted or just unlucky.

 

[katanaD]

well.. good to know that my facebook data will net them a whopping ZERO cents

Facebook said its security had not been compromised. And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions. Facebook added it had taken steps to prevent further accounts being affected.

so.. our security is fine.. it was an outside breach.. and we are beefing up our security... so the beginning does not equate with the ending of that sentence..

 

[Deleted member 93354]

Class action in 3, 2, 1...

 

[viscountalpha]

This is why my Facebook profile is is incomplete and full of inaccuracies.

Dis-information is a useful tool.

 

[alxlwson]

I wonder how much underage porn they managed to grab. There was news here not long ago about 10-12yo's sending each other nudes.