Phil Muncaster reports:
Security experts are warning web users to ensure they use strong passwords and vary their credentials from site to site after a new hacking group published log-in details of what it claimed to be more than 10,000 Facebook users.
Trend Micro’s director of security research, Rik Ferguson, explained in a blog post that the “Team Swastika” group published the details to Pastebin “without context and with no indication of the means by which they were stolen”.
But was it really a Facebook hack? Facebook says “no:”
“This does not represent a hack of Facebook or anyone’s Facebook profiles,” said a spokesperson.
“Our security experts have reviewed this data and found it to be a set of e-mail and password combinations that are not associated with any live Facebook accounts.”
Curiouser and curiouser.
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