Facebook Account Hacked

[Jacklitsch]

It appears that my Facebook account was hacked and a spam video posted on numerous friend's walls.

I don't know the content of the video but suggest you not open it as it didn't come from me.

I have closed my Facebook account.

Hope this hasn't caused a problem for anyone.

[Rob D.]

On what might be a related note, over the weekend, accounts set up on Gawker Media (which includes Deadspin) were hacked. If you have an account and use the same user name/password on other websites, it might be worth changing them. Here's the news release from Gawker:

This weekend we discovered that Gawker Media's servers were compromised,
resulting in a security breach at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel,
io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. As a result, the user name
and password associated with your comment account were released on the
internet. If you're a commenter on any of our sites, you probably have
several questions.

We understand how important trust is on the internet, and we're deeply
sorry for and embarrassed about this breach of security. Right now we
are working around the clock to improve security moving forward. We're
also committed to communicating openly and frequently with you to make
sure you understand what has happened, how it may or may not affect you,
and what we're doing to fix things.

This is what you should do immediately: Try to change your password in
the Gawker Media Commenting System. If you used your Gawker Media
password on any other web site, you should change the password on those
sites as well, particularly if you used the same username or email with
that site. To be safe, however, you should change the password on those
accounts whether or not you were using the same username.

We're continually updating an FAQ (http://lifehac.kr/eUBjVf) with more
information and will continue to do so in the coming days and weeks.

Gawker Media

[barrysloate]

My wife stopped using her Facebook account because she was getting a virus (I don't understand the technical problem, other than she shut it down).

[autograf]

fleshbot? dare we ask?

[autograf]

I alerted Steve....I looked at the event stream on Facebook and there were about 30 posts by him about a video. Don't ever click video links on your 'wall'. My folks did that and the virus ate up their hard drive. Pretty ugly....doesn't appear to be too malicious hopefully..........

[martin neal]

I would like to apologize for all the Viagra ads I sent out last week. I was unaware of the hack until a few days after the event.