ALERT: 600K Unauthorized Facebook Log-Ins Daily
Happy Halloween: A Facebook account gets compromised once every 140 milliseconds.
With Halloween just days away, here’s something that ought to spook you: 600,000 accounts a day get compromised on Facebook.
Using information released by Facebook in its announcement of its forthcoming trusted friends and application passwords features, Sophos highlighted the following scary statistic: .06 percent of Facebook log-ins are compromised on a daily basis.
Doesn’t sound like a lot? The security firm further elaborated that the number works out to one compromised account every 140 milliseconds.
A Facebook spokesperson added some clarification about the 600,000 figure:
While Facebook does block about 600,000 logins per day, it is not that these Facebook accounts are compromised on Facebook, and certainly not that they’re “hacked,” as some have written.
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