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Hundreds of Facebook groups hacked and hijacked - to prove a point?
Facebook is under attack! Okay, maybe that's a little too dramatic.
Recently, however, hundreds of Facebook groups were exploited by a group of attackers known as "Control Your Info". The hackers promise they aren't doing this for any malicious purpose though. The purpose of the mass hacking is to point out a major problem with the way Facebook handles groups management.
So what's the problem? The guys that did this said the problem has to do with group admins. When someone decides they don't want to be an admin any longer, virtually anyone can take over the group and make changes to members, group information, and pictures.
Unlike completely malicious hackers, the group says it wants to raise awareness and make sure people think about security. The groups that were hacked had their names changed to "Control Your Info" and profile images modified. A message appeared on many of the groups that said "Hello, we hereby announce that we have officially hijacked your Facebook group. If we wanted, we could make you appear in a bad way which could damage your image severely."
The group promised not to "mess anything up" and will return the groups to their original state by the end of the week.
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Mr. Brown said 7:24PM on 11-10-2009
And this is a hack, how? I must be hacking away when I go down my list of groups and click on a link that says "This group no longer has an admin. Become Admin Now!"
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Trent said 7:47PM on 11-10-2009
Once I entered my user name and password and bam, I hacked my way that easily into the facebook homepage, what amateurs.
Groups are largely for tools anyways.
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