Facebook Fraud a Serious Concern

Hacking of Facebook accounts has become a “major issue” for the popular social networking site. Richard Allan, Facebook’s head of European public policy, recently addressed the growing concern, promising that the site would counter the problem through the implementation of “sophisticated methods of tracking unusual user behavior.” Concern over user’s privacy arose recently after hackers gained access to the Facebook account Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of international law enforcement agency Interpol. The hackers had sought access to access to highly sensitive information on wanted criminals via Noble’s account.

Although the hacking of Noble’s account has been the most high profile incident of “Facebook fraud”, a recurrent problem for the site has been the hacking of user’s accounts to contact friends and dupe them out of relatively large sums of money.

According to Allan, the company has launched a “site integrity” projected devoted to tracking suspicious activity. The site plans to add warnings if it is accessed from unusual locations or by different methods than usual, and to require users to verify the names of their friends to ensure that only the real user has access to their account.

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