Facebook Administrator Groups Hijacked

Author: Donald Sears
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As of this morning, an anonymous group hijacked more than 200 Facebook groups and renamed them “Control Your Info”. Pasted on each group’s Wall was a message announcing that it had been “hijacked” and reminding members to be careful about controlling personal information on social networking sites. “This means we control a certain part of the information about you on
Facebook. If we wanted we could make you appear in a bad way which
could damage your image,” the message said. Read the full article. [Computerworld] 

As of this morning, an anonymous group hijacked more than 200 Facebook groups and renamed them “Control Your Info”. Pasted on each group’s Wall was a message announcing that it had been “hijacked” and reminding members to be careful about controlling personal information on social networking sites. “This means we control a certain part of the information about you on
Facebook. If we wanted we could make you appear in a bad way which
could damage your image,” the message said. Read the full article. [Computerworld] 

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