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Follow on Google News |  1000+ Facebook Pages Hacked By Algerian Hacker Group!While logging onto one of our clients Facebook Fanpages today I realized that I no longer had administrator access to their page. After making a few calls to the other Admins on the page nobody had access to the page. We have been hacked!
Not knowing the cause of the problem, we have spent the majority of the day researching how this may have occurred and what, if anything, can be done about it. The page still exists, we can even post to it using HootSuite and other 3rd party applications, but all of our Admin privileges are currently gone. We research some more and send several support help emails to Facebook, but from what we read it does not look like Facebook is of much help in situations like these. Then something strange happened. At about 3pm a post was made to the page that we are locked out of saying 'Happy Valentine's Day !' I thought this was strange since the only way we could post to the page as the page owner was as an admin or through a 3rd party service, none of us had done it. I started to get suspicious and decided to Google: 'fanpage fanpage hijacked.' BINGO! The second result said 'Fan Page was hijacked! Pls help' and was posted today, February 13, 2011. I clicked the link and found this: Fan Page was hijacked! Pls help www.facebook.com/ www.facebook.com/ Both fan pages were hijacked, all admins were removed and message "hacked by:bl00dy punKK" I’m hijacked from: http://getsatisfaction.com/ I decided to investigate further and clicked to the VolcanoECig facebook link. The very first post on the page said 'Happy Valentine's Day !' just like our page. The thing that really caught my eye is that there was a space between the 'y' in Day and the space before the exclamation point, just like on our page. In addition to that, this 'Happy Valentine's Day !' post was posted at exactly the same time as it was posted on the Volcano Electronic Cigarette Page. As I started reading the comments it turns out that this page was hacked and the owners of the page were being asked for a ransom for the return of their page. So I began to wonder, we're probably not the only two pages that had this happen, and who is behind this? I began doing Google and Facebook searches for 'bl00dy punKK' (turns out 1 K is his typical spelling) and came upon a group of hackers known as the Republick of Kosova Hackers (RKH), of which bl00dy punk is a part. I found three other members of the RKH crew and after a little digging found two of the four in Facebook. From the looks of things, and what my Google Translator was able to translate in Albanian, these guys have been hacking websites for some time, and they think very highly of themselves. I dug a little deeper into the profiles of 'the crew' (DSRsysGR, HoaX-TrojAn) The article claims that over 1000 Facebook pages were hacked, many of them with 400K or more fans. So I guess the Albanians have figured out some way to hack into Facebook fanpages. Facebook really needs to get their act together when it comes to security, just a week ago or so Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's own Fanpage was hacked. Keep up with this story as it unfolds at http://www.blackboxsocialmedia.com # # # Black Box Social Media is a leader in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) field. We offer a unique mix of online marketing strategies, services, and tools for both individuals and companies. www.blackboxsocialmedia.com End
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