Facebook security flaw - New accounts created on my email
Thursday, October 18. 2018
Couple days ago 8pm, I got an email from Facebook. Personally, I think face book is a criminal organization and want absolutely nothing to do with the idiots. Given the nature of the email, I started investigating:
Yeah, right. Like I would create an account there. And if I would, I wouldn't use any of my proper emails. Their information gathering from non-users is criminal and they do know pretty much everything there is to know about me. Still, I wouldn't give them anything too easily.
I did confirm the time. I wasn't even using a computer when above mail was received. So, I'm claiming, it wasn't me!
Things started getting really weird, when these arrived:
Somebody from New Jersey, USA had reset the password for this newly created account. How nice of them!
Also, there was some trouble logging in. Well that can happen, when you're hacking.
Given the option in the mail, I did click the "If you didn't do this, please secure your account". The first thing they want from me is my phone number. Again, they need to steal that information from me, I'm not going to GIVE it to them. Without verified mobile number, face-jerks let me do nothing. I cannot report the security incident. I cannot request closing the account. There is absolutely no options before entering my phone number. Nobody at super-smart face book anticipated things like this to happen. I really love their service design there!
Just to make sure, I did check my email logins at my service provider. No suspicious activity there. I did reply to security@facebookmail.com regarding this security incident, but I really don't have my hopes up. If somewhere there's a nipple visible or just regular business presentation, then the jerks at FB will censor the material in 5 minutes. When something really serious happens, they don't care. Their only motivator is the stock price. Visible nipples can threaten their revenues, security incidents to so much.
My guess is, that after their last incident (see: Relax, just 30 million Facebook accounts were compromised after all), there is lot of people wanting to crack the site. To me it looks like, somebody is progressing with the attempt and using my mail account at it.