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Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Facebook is secure against hackers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who knew that if you weren't friends with someone, they couldn't see your data. Hmm. Seriously though. Senior NATO officials have Facebook pages! Dumb! Their private information is on those Facebook pages? Dumber...

  2. Unknown Hackers? by JustinFreid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Registering for Facebook with a fake name hardly qualifies as hacking.
    Surprisingly, the headline is more accurate than the story.

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