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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
They can also use it to send spam or malware. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n