@movq@www.uninformativ.de pleas no.

My wifes mom nearly got her account fully taken over by some hacker. They were able to get control and change password but I was able to get it recovered before they could get the phone number reset. They sent messages to all her contacts to send cash.

@xuu Wow! 😱 That’s nuts! How did they take over the account? Password leak and no multi factor auth?

@xuu Which account, the “normal” Facebook one? 🤔

(Regarding Musk: He bought Twitter, ruined it and people mass-migrated to Mastodon. So let’s let him buy Meta and do the same thing! 🤪)

the whatsapp one

@prologic@twtxt.net I think it was some mix of phish and social engineering. She didn’t have the multifactor enabled. But i think she had clicked a message that had a fake login. She talked to someone on a phone and they made her do some things.

I never got the whole story of how it happened.

@xuu I don’t even have a WhatsApp password, it never asked me? 🤔

@xuu it’s always interesting to hear how these things happen.