Facebook invaded
Facebook has had its first serious security breach. Hackers are targeting the social networking site's almost 60m registered users with a phishing scam that "harvests users' login details and passwords", reports Wired News. The 525 802 South Africans on the site could also be targets.
When users enter their account they found unusual postings on their "wall" from one of their friends, saying: "lol i can't believe these pics got posted…. it's going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these," followed by what looks like a legitimate Facebook link, reports Wired News. The link takes you to a fake Facebook login page hosted on a Chinese .cn domain. The page logs you into Facebook, but retains a copy of your user name and password.
The hackers use the compromised profiles to "host Trojan horses such as key loggers that go on to steal banking passwords and credit card numbers", warns Wired News.
They can also use it to send spam or malware.
Since the Wired News article, the offending URL: h–p://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn/, making 371233.cn has disappeared and shows an error page.
Should you be a victim, Wired News suggests you log in and change your password immediately, and do the same for all accounts that carry that password.
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