Facebook's 200 million users have been targeted by hackers in the latest "phishing" scam to hit the social networking website.
Internet fraudsters stole the passwords of a number of members on Thursday in a successful attack, a Facebook spokesman said.
Users were tricked into clicking on links posted from accounts that had been taken over by the hackers.
These brought up fake Facebook log-on pages which requested the visitors re-enter their usernames and passwords. Anyone who did so effectively handed the conmen the keys to their profile.
More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/facebook/5326971/Facebook-users-targeted-by-hackers-in-successful-phishing-attack.html
Internet fraudsters stole the passwords of a number of members on Thursday in a successful attack, a Facebook spokesman said.
Users were tricked into clicking on links posted from accounts that had been taken over by the hackers.
These brought up fake Facebook log-on pages which requested the visitors re-enter their usernames and passwords. Anyone who did so effectively handed the conmen the keys to their profile.
More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/facebook/5326971/Facebook-users-targeted-by-hackers-in-successful-phishing-attack.html
