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Hacked logins used to buy condoms and hijack PayPal, Facebook accounts

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Dissent

Ben Grubb and Asher Moses report:

Australians are being advised by the government to change and vary their passwords after miscreants began using the logins of thousands of people leaked on to the web to break into Facebook and PayPal accounts.

One claims to have bought a packet of condoms “for an elderly woman” using the online store Amazon.

[…]

Others posted screen shots of them being able to access people’s Facebook accounts. One said they broke into a girl’s Facebook account and told the girl’s boyfriend that they would no longer have sex with them. The boy, according to the person that broke in, said they understood why.

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