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Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 12, 2012 @03:43AM from the keep-your-friends-close-and-you-friends-list-closer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Late last year, senior British military officers, Defense Ministry officials, and other government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as United States Navy admiral James Stavridis. By doing so, they exposed their own personal information (such as private e-mail addresses, phone numbers, pictures, the names of family members, and possibly even the details of their movements), to unknown hackers."

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Re:Anyone else not comfortable by PIBM · 2012-03-12 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

And you post that to facebook ? No wonder you don't have any friends!
Re:Facebook is secure against hackers? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-12 04:22 · Score: 5, Funny

NATO guide to Facebook:
Using Facebook for personal use is perfectly acceptable, however do not use the system from work or make work related updates.
Good status update: On my way home, looking forward to a nice home-cooked dinner.
Bad status update: Just got out of a long meeting, looks like Spain is going to have some trade difficulties soon.
Re:Anyone else not comfortable by travdaddy · 2012-03-12 04:28 · Score: 3, Funny

They mostly post battle plans for the next week. They say they're looking for suggestions but all they really want is compliments.

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Re:Really by drkim · 2012-03-12 05:11 · Score: 4, Funny

Actually, all secret government posting are done on MySpace now, because nobody ever goes there...