Fraud hacks are ‘major problem’: Facebook
Only days after Interpol secretary-general Ronald K. Noble admitted hackers had tapped into his Fa$ebook account to collect sensitive data about some of the world’s most wanted criminals, Richard Allan, Facebook’s head of European public policy, has admitted fraud has become a “major issue” with the site.
He says hacks by fraudsters are a problem for the social networking advertising company. As a result “the site is implementing new ways of detecting when its users’ accounts have been hacked, and is adding warnings if it is accessed from unusual locations or by different methods than usual”, he told the Guardian, which has him saying the problem “would be countered by sophisticated methods of tracking unusual user behaviour”.
“Now, if you’re logging in from an unusual location you’ll get extra security questions and if you want to login by a new device [Facebook] notifies you by SMS or email,” Allan says in the story, promising the company’s “site integrity” project – which aims to track suspicious activity – is “developing new ways to protect its 500 million users”.
