SEATTLE, WA (YBH.ME) – Online security firm PandaLabs has discovered a website that claims it will hack any Facebook account for the paltry sum of $100.
PandaLabs wisely didn’t disclose the web address publicly. According to PandaLabs Technical Director Luis Corrons “The web page is very well designed. It is easy to contract the service and become either the victim of an online fraud, or a cyber-criminal and accomplice in identity theft. Once an intruder hacks into a Facebook account, all personal data published on the site can be stolen.”
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Outside of identity theft, a stolen Facebook account could also be used to defame a user or spread malware. Corrons continues, “Similarly, those accounts can also be used to send malware, spam or other threats to the victim’s contacts. In the case of celebrities or other well-known entities, they can be used to defame the account holder, spread information in their name, etc. In any event, this is criminal activity.”
The site is registered to a domain holder in Moscow. The site claims that all but 1% of Facebook accounts are hackable. The site requires a payment via Western Union to a location in the Ukraine.
Facebook is now the most popular social media and networking site on the internet, with almost as many users as people in the United States. Security problems have plagued both Facebook and its competitors, like MySpace.com.
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