Facebook glitch lets spear phishers impersonate users' friends and family

JMH · Aug 31, 2012

Facebook, blaming a "temporary misconfiguration," accidentally let spear phishers vacuum up users' personal details so they could pose as friends and family and thus make their come-ons convincing, the company told Forbes on Wednesday.
Forbes staffer David M. Ewalt was alerted to the threat when he himself received two targeted spam messages in the preceding week, both sent to a personal email address registered with his Facebook account.

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Facebook glitch lets spear phishers impersonate users' friends and family

JMH

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