Facebook. The American company is unable to get rid of the problems regarding the security of user data, over 120 million messages stolen from the social network were recently sold by hackers. Those from Facebook discovered in September that the messages were stolen by hackers from their users, all being done through browser extensions that monitored the users' activity while they were browsing the Internet.
Facebook. The hackers did not only sell the messages from the users' accounts, but also the accounts as a whole, asking 10 cents for each account, and the American company claims that it has no fault in this whole story. Those from Facebook say that the users are to blame for the fact that their account data was stolen by the extensions they used in their browsers while surfing the Internet, but everyone believes that Facebook has the main fault here.
Facebook. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of Messages SOLD by Hackers
Facebook. Data from 81.000 accounts were published by hackers last week, and the American company notified the creators of the affected extensions to update them and solve the problems. The hackers initially claimed that they had the login data of 120 million Facebook accounts, but in reality the number would be much, much lower, they only managed to sell 120 million private messages, a huge number, in which there are a lot of personal data.
"We have contacted browser-makers to ensure that known malicious extensions are no longer available to download in their stores. ...We have also contacted law enforcement and have worked with local authorities to remove the website that displayed information from Facebook accounts."
Facebook. The bad part is that the data that has been published on the Internet about the accounts includes the names of the accounts, pictures taken from them, plus many other personal messages between the respective users. This recent security problem involving Facebook comes only a month after it was discovered that the data of 50 million accounts were accessed by hackers, and in this situation the fault was the American company, not its users.