Hacking can damage a person’s reputation and result in thousands of dollars in lost advertising revenue. Dale Berry is the owner of an English preschool in Japan. He was hacked and had his Facebook account compromised. Hackers used his account to display fraudulent ads, draining his business and ruining his reputation.
The hackers began targeting people with weak passwords like “qwerty” and “password.” Once they have access to an account, they review the top five most popular friends and impersonate one of them to request for a password reset number. They then use the security feature that allows people to add friends as trusted contacts in case they lose their password and they can request those trusted friends to give them the one-time password to regain access to the account.
Another method for hackers to gain access accounts is by buying stolen login information. Recently an inventory of 26 million Amazon, LinkedIn, and Facebook passwords were found for sale on the dark web. A large portion of these passwords were stolen by custom Trojan malware which affected millions of Windows-based computers between the years of 2018 and 2020.
Users can protect themselves from attacks by making sure they always check that the address bar in their browsers says Facebook and not another site. They should also choose the password that combines numbers as well as letters and spaces and https://www.app-ink.net/avg-ultimate-great-protection-for-the-most-gadgets-in-the-house never duplicate the same password across other email or social media accounts. Additionally, they should check their activity notifications regularly. Twitter for instance sends out notifications when the user logs in from a new location or device.