Private messages from hacked Facebook accounts for sale

The BBC is reporting that hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users’ accounts.

The BBC understands many of the users whose details have been compromised are based in Ukraine and Russia. However, some are from the UK, US, Brazil and elsewhere.

The hackers offered to sell access for 10 cents (8p) per account. However, their advert has since been taken offline.

“We have contacted browser-makers to ensure that known malicious extensions are no longer available to download in their stores,” said Facebook executive Guy Rosen.

“We have also contacted law enforcement and have worked with local authorities to remove the website that displayed information from Facebook accounts.”..

The breach first came to light in September, when a post from a user nicknamed FBSaler appeared on an English-language internet forum.

“We sell personal information of Facebook users. Our database includes 120 million accounts,” the user wrote…

The cyber-security company Digital Shadows examined the claim on behalf of the BBC and confirmed that more than 81,000 of the profiles posted online as a sample contained private messages…

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