Spam Email From Facebook Friends? Here’s Why
Facebook repaired a misconfiguration last week that briefly allowed spammers to obtain data on users’ friends and use those friends’ names on emails, but it’s now in the hands of email providers to locate and shut down the sources of the spam.
Facebook repaired a misconfiguration last week that briefly allowed spammers to obtain data on users’ friends and use those friends’ names on emails, but it’s now in the hands of email providers to locate and shut down the sources of the spam.
CNET reported that while the spammers no longer have access to any new data from the social network, they are continuing to use the information they were able to obtain last week.
Facebook said in a statement to CNET:
Recently, we discovered a single isolated campaign that was using compromised email accounts to gain information scraped from friend lists due to a temporary misconfiguration on our site.
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