I'm always concerned with hackers and identity theft. This is from one of my friends friends who programs for Facebook.
A good reminder!
Friends, Family: any time you see a Facebook post that is trying to get personal information about you such as birthdays, schools you went to, spouses/partners, cars you owned, places you lived...
IT'S A TRAP! Do not answer them. They are gathering data about you to then try to be able to bust through the security questions on your bank/phone accounts. They disguise themselves often as radio stations or restaurants.
It's a very dangerous thing. If they can figure out the answers, they can call your cell phone provider and trick the reps into switching your phone over to their SIM card. Then, all those two factor verifications for signing in go to them and they then are able to hijack your bank accounts and steal your life savings.
So please, don't do it. Ever. Everyone you truly care about already knows what year you got married.
I was watching for this write up. Worst hack yet. We had Russians waltzing through all our data for months.
Russian hackers exploited gaps in U.S. defenses and spent months in government and corporate networks in one of the most effective cyber espionage campaigns of all time. This is how they did it.
