Facebook recently announced that they uncovered an incident where fraudsters used compromised email addresses to scrape lists of Facebook friends due to a misconfiguration on their site. The fraudsters would then target phishing emails to the owners of the email addresses purporting to be from a Facebook friend. Read More
LinkedIn Suffers Data Breach, Now Faces Lawsuit
Nearly 6.5 million passwords were posted on a Russian based hacker forum website and on June 6th LinkedIn confirmed that these passwords belonged to their users. The company now faces a $5 million class action suit claiming they are in violation of their own user agreements and privacy policies. Read More
Malware Targets Facebook Users
A common browser-based malware attack often targeted at online banking sites has now been configured to attempt and phish credit card details from users logging in to their Facebook accounts. Read More
People with Public Social Media Profiles May Have Greater Chance of Identity Fraud
A recent study from Javelin Strategy & Research estimates that five percent of the adult population in the United States experienced identity fraud in 2011, but the incidence rate of identity fraud among Facebook users with public profiles was 50 percent higher. Read More
Social Network Users Becoming More Conscious About What Information They Share
Over the last five years the influence of social media has created new threats and problems with respect to authenticating identity information online. Recent surveys have had mixed results showing that some consumer groups share too much information online, although people are making strides to protect their personal information as well. Read More
