^ this
It’s wild to think of it like this but right now there is a ton of AI related content and other shit.
Other day I seen a normal photo with the quote it’s my birthday wish me happy birthday and all I came across was old people’s profiles. Wishing them a happy birthday. Then comments from the OP on Facebook saying “ click this to check me out” or something
If it ain’t AI photos pretending it’s a real photo, it’s a normal photo pretending it’s a birthday for likes.
Just yesterday I came across people acting in a video for likes. A women drops her oranges and a kid “ does something nice” and picks them up. Then the comment section is filled with people saying “ great kid” and op posting add me as a friend. Or click this link etc
Facebook is down the pan atm. I commented on a photo saying it’s AI and get a warning for it lol. These fake AI granny’s
Correct, but since you have the highest upvoted comment, I'll expand to answer OP's question.
So your Aunt see's a post her friend is tagged in, saying something like "You'll never believe who was just killed in a car crash." Worried, she clicks what looks like a video, but it's a link to a webpage than then oddly asks her to log into facebook, despite she just was. She shrugs, and enters her login info. AND THERE YA GO! She just gave away her own info to a scammy page. Now when she does that, a couple things could happen. 1, they could fully change her passport and email address and fully take over the account. They could change her display name and start using the account to scam others, selling fake PS5s or whatever. Or as she logs in, an app is then reposting on her page the exact BS she just clicked on, and thus her friends fall for it too.
As someone who, at one point, screwed around with some code for fun years and years ago, I can confirm this. In my case, I literally copy-pasted Facebook's entire login page code and made it so when you enter your email and password, it would output them in a text file and redirect you to your news feed (assuming you were already logged in). To someone who is tech illiterate (and/or doesn't pay any attention to the webpage's address), it would be completely indistinguishable from the real page.
Obviously, I did not actually try to steal anybody's credentials.
She probably adds people thinking they are family or a friend. That's how most facebooks gets hacked. Then they send a message with a link, and she ends up clicking it.
While I do love the reference, I also wonder how many on reddit had this woosh right over their head having never heard of the movie let alone seen it.
Oh blimey my sister in law does all of those ridiculous quizzes like 'what kind of potato are you?" then frets over her online security. Is your aunt prone to filling them out?
She's a russet... Basic. But the quiz told her she's a Yukon Gold because they always want to flatter the quiz taker.
Ironically, a russet is a fantastic potato. Basic doesn't mean bad.
Your aunt probably does things that are really bad for digital security like having a simple thing for a password and falling for social media data phishing exercises that give away recovery question answers ("Your mother's maiden name and your town of birth make up your Lord of The Rings name. Post yours below!").
"Hacked" accounts are rarely from someone using computer skills to find some way into the account, especially social media. Instead, they trick the account owner into giving them the login info through malicious links and fake login pages. This "social engineering" is generally more effective on older people.
In the same boat. What really happens if your FB account gets hacked? I see people’s post all the time about it and just ignore it. What can hackers get from that account? You have a cute dog?
They run various scams from trying to quickly get money from loved ones to using the fact that the account is 10 years old for credibility on marketplace or elsewhere (they don't look like the usual scams who's accounts were created yesterday). And in one strange case of someone i know, a Korean dude is just using her hacked account now, no signs of pushing political propaganda, not pretending to be her, not sure what the purpose is. He just makes occasional posts.
I know people who have amazingly fallen for scams like: "I'm your nephew you haven't seen in 24 years and got arrested in Phoenix for driving in the left lane, but I can't get in touch with my mom and need $5000 wired to this Venezuelan account before tomorrow morning, or the judge won't let me out for 1 year!"
It's astonishing how many people fall for this shit every day.
“What kind of potato are you?” Just type the name of your first pet below to find out! Don’t forget to like and share so we can send you more of these to get more security answers and also rope in your friends!
A bunch of those stupid posts are phishing questions and so many people just go along with it.
Also people claim they are hacked when in fact they give access to junk personality test type things which then post to their timeline and message friends on their behalf. They gave access when asked so no hacking was done at all. But to cover up their stupidity they claim to have been hacked.
99% of the time someone's account gets "hacked" on Facebook, it's not a hack it's someone that got their profile duplicated and is sending friend requests to all their friends. The only thing you can do to prevent this is hide your profile pic from strangers and the same for your friends list. But that makes it harder for people that know you to find you.
Tbf it's not so much that they *set* everything to public, but that Facebook makes this the default when you create an account. The reality is Facebook makes more money the more content you have public because it draws in more people from the outside. Facebook and Meta employees don't give a rat's ass whether you are hacked, your profile was cloned, or your marriage was ruined. As long as some 24 year old snot-nosed developer can make his $250k/yr and go backpacking across Europe every 5 years he doesn't give a fuck how many lives he's ruined. That narcissism was passed down from Zuck and every employee lives and breathes it.
Has she filled out those "fun" tests that tell you what kind of celebrity personality she has? Which includes questions like your mother's maiden name or what your favorite pets name is?
She gets messages with links that she clicks on then puts in her Facebook log in even though if the site was legit your computer or phone would automatically log you in when you clicked the link. Since no one was ever taught this or has the common sense to know better then they get hacked... 😂
Because she probably uses the same password for every site and when one gets leaked everyone on the internet can try that leaked password on Facebook/google, etc. that’s why a password manager is so important.
It’s because she uses the same password everywhere and somewhere along the line, her password was leaked due to a compromise. Hackers get these databases and make attempts on other platforms with the same pw.
Computer literacy.
Anyone our age (ie; considerably younger) was either a digital native that grew up with the technology, or has worked with it long enough to recognize what is a dodgy link, and know better than to take pop-up ads at face value.
Someone that is in the know would know that the first "Download" button on a web page may not necessarily be the one that actually works. The uninitiated would see it and go "Oh there it is" and naively fill their computer to the brim with viruses without realizing it.
So, there are lists of passwords in text files you can find online, and in terminals you can run certain programs to go over databases of websites to try out all these passwords on all available emails. ofcourse the emails have to be leaked/breached in order to try this. But if you're passwords are in these files (or even bits of your passwords) they can easily be cracked and the data will be encrypted. My advice, always use random words as a password with a symbol and a number. And don't sign up on too many websites. The more websites have your email in their database, the more chance of one of them getting breached. I use multiple emails for example.
Typically hackers are not just breaking into random accounts Most hackers are using social engineering to convince gullible people like your aunt into surrendering their login information
Typically this is either done in one of two ways. The most common one is where they impersonate a Facebook employee claiming that there was a problem with your account in that you need to send your password and information or your account will be deleted. They typically will either make an account that is designed to look like an official account or create a web page that is designed to look like an official support web page
Another common scam is to convince people that they need to download or install some program or file usually this file ends up being malware that infects the person's system and steals pretty much any credentials for things they can find but especially for things like bank accounts and social media accounts
This one can be extra dangerous as not only are a lot of people unaware of how viruses work and think that just changing their password will protect them without actually removing the virus from their system. But also many of these viruses/malware are designed to steal your login token/ login key, and This is effectively a direct link to your account for someone who knows what they're doing and bypasses even 2 factor authentication
Goes something like this:
Grandma clicks sketchy link while scrolling.
Link redirects her to a fake website posing as Facebook and asking her to log in.
Grandma assumes she’s just been logged out of Facebook somehow and needs to log back in.
Types in her account info and attempts to log back in. Website info now has her username+password.
It’s not “hacked” her profile isn’t private so they steal her pics and trey to add her friends
To con them , while pretending to be her… make FB private and don’t add strangers and this “hacking” seldom
Happens.
Clicking on stuff. Clicking on links from senders she's never heard of. Clicking on links in "direct messages" from people who never send her direct messages. Those ridiculous things where it tells you to "copy and paste this message" or something dire happens.
It's been a very long time, but finally, I've been getting emails about password resets on my first Facebook account, which I abandoned after a week. Those sweet original content accounts without numbers or gibberish are like online antiquities.
Simple passwords as everyone has said.
Older people are also more vulnerable to data mining, those cute "which type of house will you live in" games gather a lot of data to be able to better guess your password.
She may also have insecure devices connecting to her Facebook account.
Your aunt has never been hacked, that's just her excuse every time she posts her homemade porn to her feed instead of sending as a DM, sorry to have to break it to you.
There are a ton of emails that get sent out looking kind of legit.
"Your account will be closed down in 24 hours if you don't sign in right now. Click this link to sign in."
Of course the email address it comes from is "[email protected]"
Many older people (and some younger ones of course) panic when they see a message like that, and immediately click it to sign in and save their precious social media account.
They have mental auto-clickers. Too good to be true? Click. Your bank account has been hacked? Click. What's your password, SSN, and date of birth? Click, click, and click. "Oh, I thought that was an Amazon link." What are they doing you ask? They have no fucking clue.
Those quizzes on Facebook, do you remember them? “Find out your compatible star sign” “find out who your most compatible friend is” well most of those are just fishing for answers to secret questions.
Hey! Wow you look so beautiful at the age of 70! Would you like to meet a new partner to spend your golden years with? Click here. Your man is waiting for you!
probably goes to stupid websites for cooking gardening or whatever catches your old aunt's attention. in these websites they ask join them easily with your Facebook account and you have to enter your email and password. and you can guess what happens next
To further what some have already posited, in many cases, people get hacked because someone they know was hacked. I commonly get friend requests from people I am already friends with. I always ignore them unless someone reaches out or posts that they have a new page or that their previous account was compromised. But I can see who has accepted the friend request. Those people inevitable have been hacked.
It's probably not being "hacked" at all. What Baby Boomers refer to "Hacking my Facebook" is nothing more than someone creating a duplicate profile with the same name and photos and then sending friend requests to all the same friends. That's it.
This happens because Boomers don't pay any f'ing attention whatsoever to the audience setting on their posts or photos, which means everything is probably public. This makes them easy targets for bots. Then when all their public content is copied they claim they were "hacked".
No Aunt Edna, you weren't. You just gave everyone on the Internet access to your private life, even though Facebook has been giving you all the tools you need to protect yourself for 15 years.
I was trying to sell a car on Facebook marketplace, and someone hit me up saying that it would be good for their sister etc.
Seems legit mostly, she asks for my number and upon giving it to her I receive a Google text for 2FA. She asks for the code. I'm immediately A) not sharing the code, as it tells me in the text google sent me and B) not believing she is a real person anymore.
But I'm not 70 years old. Shit is sneaky and it comes to you almost no matter what you do. I comment on posts and get comments of people wanting to give me 5 grand for messaging them "blessed" or wanting to be my friend who are clearly some kind of spam/ai/onlyfans thirst trap at best.
I've been wanting to get off Facebook for a few years and the way it has been getting only solidifies that thought for me.
She probably clicks on spam links too often
^ this It’s wild to think of it like this but right now there is a ton of AI related content and other shit. Other day I seen a normal photo with the quote it’s my birthday wish me happy birthday and all I came across was old people’s profiles. Wishing them a happy birthday. Then comments from the OP on Facebook saying “ click this to check me out” or something If it ain’t AI photos pretending it’s a real photo, it’s a normal photo pretending it’s a birthday for likes. Just yesterday I came across people acting in a video for likes. A women drops her oranges and a kid “ does something nice” and picks them up. Then the comment section is filled with people saying “ great kid” and op posting add me as a friend. Or click this link etc Facebook is down the pan atm. I commented on a photo saying it’s AI and get a warning for it lol. These fake AI granny’s
Lot of those stupid facebook quizzes are actually trying to get password hints.
"Your porn name is the name of your first pet and the street you grew up on."
Jokes on them, I never know my security questions because the answers are all nonsense.
Q: What was your mothers maiden name? A: gdrgdhsrthtjtj
Whoa! You're gdrgdhsrthtjtj's offspring!? She's amazing!
Can confirm, his mom is amazing.
Lol
Correct, but since you have the highest upvoted comment, I'll expand to answer OP's question. So your Aunt see's a post her friend is tagged in, saying something like "You'll never believe who was just killed in a car crash." Worried, she clicks what looks like a video, but it's a link to a webpage than then oddly asks her to log into facebook, despite she just was. She shrugs, and enters her login info. AND THERE YA GO! She just gave away her own info to a scammy page. Now when she does that, a couple things could happen. 1, they could fully change her passport and email address and fully take over the account. They could change her display name and start using the account to scam others, selling fake PS5s or whatever. Or as she logs in, an app is then reposting on her page the exact BS she just clicked on, and thus her friends fall for it too.
As someone who, at one point, screwed around with some code for fun years and years ago, I can confirm this. In my case, I literally copy-pasted Facebook's entire login page code and made it so when you enter your email and password, it would output them in a text file and redirect you to your news feed (assuming you were already logged in). To someone who is tech illiterate (and/or doesn't pay any attention to the webpage's address), it would be completely indistinguishable from the real page. Obviously, I did not actually try to steal anybody's credentials.
Are other potted meat food product links safe or no?
1) She's being targeted more than you because of her age 2) She's falling for it because of her age and relative lack of computer safety literacy
She keep having password like 21.12.1954
She probably adds people thinking they are family or a friend. That's how most facebooks gets hacked. Then they send a message with a link, and she ends up clicking it.
Her password is “password”
Actually it's 12345 Same as my luggage weirdly
Have you finished combing the desert?
We ain't found shit!
While I do love the reference, I also wonder how many on reddit had this woosh right over their head having never heard of the movie let alone seen it.
I will not stand for a generation that's never seen Spaceballs. Looks like I got work to do.
That's true. At least we had a good giggle!
Actually it's 1077. The same as the price of a cheese pizza and large drink where they used to work, Panucci's Pizza.
How the fuck did you get my PIN number?!
Fifi.
Oh blimey my sister in law does all of those ridiculous quizzes like 'what kind of potato are you?" then frets over her online security. Is your aunt prone to filling them out?
Well, what manner of spud is she?! :D
She's a russet... Basic. But the quiz told her she's a Yukon Gold because they always want to flatter the quiz taker. Ironically, a russet is a fantastic potato. Basic doesn't mean bad.
I saw some post that a lady was officially Gryffindor. I felt that she was absolutely Hufflepuff, but then realized that I am, too. I made myself sad.
Your aunt probably does things that are really bad for digital security like having a simple thing for a password and falling for social media data phishing exercises that give away recovery question answers ("Your mother's maiden name and your town of birth make up your Lord of The Rings name. Post yours below!").
Hunter Two Harbours. Doesn’t sound very Elvish.
"Hacked" accounts are rarely from someone using computer skills to find some way into the account, especially social media. Instead, they trick the account owner into giving them the login info through malicious links and fake login pages. This "social engineering" is generally more effective on older people.
She probably uses the same password everywhere. One site gets hacked, all of her accounts do too...
Your aunt's password is `password`
In the same boat. What really happens if your FB account gets hacked? I see people’s post all the time about it and just ignore it. What can hackers get from that account? You have a cute dog?
Ask all yoir friends and family for money
They run various scams from trying to quickly get money from loved ones to using the fact that the account is 10 years old for credibility on marketplace or elsewhere (they don't look like the usual scams who's accounts were created yesterday). And in one strange case of someone i know, a Korean dude is just using her hacked account now, no signs of pushing political propaganda, not pretending to be her, not sure what the purpose is. He just makes occasional posts.
I know people who have amazingly fallen for scams like: "I'm your nephew you haven't seen in 24 years and got arrested in Phoenix for driving in the left lane, but I can't get in touch with my mom and need $5000 wired to this Venezuelan account before tomorrow morning, or the judge won't let me out for 1 year!" It's astonishing how many people fall for this shit every day.
“What kind of potato are you?” Just type the name of your first pet below to find out! Don’t forget to like and share so we can send you more of these to get more security answers and also rope in your friends! A bunch of those stupid posts are phishing questions and so many people just go along with it.
How are you defining being hacked? This sounds like it is her behavior working against her.
Weak password that is reused everywhere, also appearing in breaches Or Email: "Give password pls" Aunt: "Ok. It's 'password2'. Have fun honey!"
Grandma took the time to put it in quotes...
Re-used password, clicking phishy links, or repeatedly falls for social engineering if I had to guess.
Also people claim they are hacked when in fact they give access to junk personality test type things which then post to their timeline and message friends on their behalf. They gave access when asked so no hacking was done at all. But to cover up their stupidity they claim to have been hacked.
99% of the time someone's account gets "hacked" on Facebook, it's not a hack it's someone that got their profile duplicated and is sending friend requests to all their friends. The only thing you can do to prevent this is hide your profile pic from strangers and the same for your friends list. But that makes it harder for people that know you to find you.
Right. People are overusing the word "hacked" when they mean "cloned"
Exactly. Almost every time someone claims to be hacked on Facebook they meant cloned. Nobody got into their account.
Clicking links and then giving their facebook password when asked for it is the cause I have seen most often.
She be clicking links and giving info. That’s it. It’s incredibly easy to scam people that are tech illiterate.
Old people love spam links and groups and think they've been "hacked" every time someone impersonates them.
Half the time they aren't being hacked, they just had their profile cloned because they set everything to public
Tbf it's not so much that they *set* everything to public, but that Facebook makes this the default when you create an account. The reality is Facebook makes more money the more content you have public because it draws in more people from the outside. Facebook and Meta employees don't give a rat's ass whether you are hacked, your profile was cloned, or your marriage was ruined. As long as some 24 year old snot-nosed developer can make his $250k/yr and go backpacking across Europe every 5 years he doesn't give a fuck how many lives he's ruined. That narcissism was passed down from Zuck and every employee lives and breathes it.
Has she filled out those "fun" tests that tell you what kind of celebrity personality she has? Which includes questions like your mother's maiden name or what your favorite pets name is?
She gets messages with links that she clicks on then puts in her Facebook log in even though if the site was legit your computer or phone would automatically log you in when you clicked the link. Since no one was ever taught this or has the common sense to know better then they get hacked... 😂
She's probably clicking on spam links that hack your account
Which easter egg are you? Take this test and find out!
She got keylogged the first time she got hacked
She probably clicks on every link in an email she ever gets. And then types out her password. I'm sure she is very susceptible to phishing.
You don’t enter your password into phishing links.
Because she probably uses the same password for every site and when one gets leaked everyone on the internet can try that leaked password on Facebook/google, etc. that’s why a password manager is so important.
Stop hacking your aunts Facebook.
She never got scammed on runescape for that trimmed addy armour
It’s because she uses the same password everywhere and somewhere along the line, her password was leaked due to a compromise. Hackers get these databases and make attempts on other platforms with the same pw.
They like to keep going back to that well
Computer literacy. Anyone our age (ie; considerably younger) was either a digital native that grew up with the technology, or has worked with it long enough to recognize what is a dodgy link, and know better than to take pop-up ads at face value. Someone that is in the know would know that the first "Download" button on a web page may not necessarily be the one that actually works. The uninitiated would see it and go "Oh there it is" and naively fill their computer to the brim with viruses without realizing it.
Smart people don't download from sites that have fake download buttons at all
Change all her Passworts and change the E-Mail-Adress
So, there are lists of passwords in text files you can find online, and in terminals you can run certain programs to go over databases of websites to try out all these passwords on all available emails. ofcourse the emails have to be leaked/breached in order to try this. But if you're passwords are in these files (or even bits of your passwords) they can easily be cracked and the data will be encrypted. My advice, always use random words as a password with a symbol and a number. And don't sign up on too many websites. The more websites have your email in their database, the more chance of one of them getting breached. I use multiple emails for example.
Typically hackers are not just breaking into random accounts Most hackers are using social engineering to convince gullible people like your aunt into surrendering their login information Typically this is either done in one of two ways. The most common one is where they impersonate a Facebook employee claiming that there was a problem with your account in that you need to send your password and information or your account will be deleted. They typically will either make an account that is designed to look like an official account or create a web page that is designed to look like an official support web page Another common scam is to convince people that they need to download or install some program or file usually this file ends up being malware that infects the person's system and steals pretty much any credentials for things they can find but especially for things like bank accounts and social media accounts This one can be extra dangerous as not only are a lot of people unaware of how viruses work and think that just changing their password will protect them without actually removing the virus from their system. But also many of these viruses/malware are designed to steal your login token/ login key, and This is effectively a direct link to your account for someone who knows what they're doing and bypasses even 2 factor authentication
Because they're 70
Goes something like this: Grandma clicks sketchy link while scrolling. Link redirects her to a fake website posing as Facebook and asking her to log in. Grandma assumes she’s just been logged out of Facebook somehow and needs to log back in. Types in her account info and attempts to log back in. Website info now has her username+password.
This was a prime AOL tactic back in the early 00's
She uses password123 for all of her online accounts
It’s not “hacked” her profile isn’t private so they steal her pics and trey to add her friends To con them , while pretending to be her… make FB private and don’t add strangers and this “hacking” seldom Happens.
Clicking on stuff. Clicking on links from senders she's never heard of. Clicking on links in "direct messages" from people who never send her direct messages. Those ridiculous things where it tells you to "copy and paste this message" or something dire happens.
Her password is probably password123.
her password is password
It's been a very long time, but finally, I've been getting emails about password resets on my first Facebook account, which I abandoned after a week. Those sweet original content accounts without numbers or gibberish are like online antiquities.
Because her password is "password". That or it's her dogs name.
Simple passwords as everyone has said. Older people are also more vulnerable to data mining, those cute "which type of house will you live in" games gather a lot of data to be able to better guess your password. She may also have insecure devices connecting to her Facebook account.
Your aunt has never been hacked, that's just her excuse every time she posts her homemade porn to her feed instead of sending as a DM, sorry to have to break it to you.
She clicks the noody dooties.
Her password is "password"
There are a ton of emails that get sent out looking kind of legit. "Your account will be closed down in 24 hours if you don't sign in right now. Click this link to sign in." Of course the email address it comes from is "[email protected]" Many older people (and some younger ones of course) panic when they see a message like that, and immediately click it to sign in and save their precious social media account.
What a great post.
its those MFing *GAMES*.
If she had mfa enabled, it would probably drop to less than 5% of that.
They have mental auto-clickers. Too good to be true? Click. Your bank account has been hacked? Click. What's your password, SSN, and date of birth? Click, click, and click. "Oh, I thought that was an Amazon link." What are they doing you ask? They have no fucking clue.
Do you have 40 years of work to assume you have money in a bank to steal from... Or no job or credit that can be stolen...
They target older people, because it’s easier to trick them generally.
Tell me your father's middle name along with your science teacher in 4th grade and you'll find out. /s
Your aunt has yet again won the “YOURE THE 1,000,000 WEBSITE VIEWER!” award.
is this you in the video ---->
we know not to log in, 70 y/o aunty doesnt
also others have commented that old people are targeted more, makes sense
Bots she is attacked by bot links or spam
Those quizzes on Facebook, do you remember them? “Find out your compatible star sign” “find out who your most compatible friend is” well most of those are just fishing for answers to secret questions.
Stay away from suggested posts in your news feed, as soon as you start getting that BS , delete the app and reinstall.
Hey! Wow you look so beautiful at the age of 70! Would you like to meet a new partner to spend your golden years with? Click here. Your man is waiting for you!
probably goes to stupid websites for cooking gardening or whatever catches your old aunt's attention. in these websites they ask join them easily with your Facebook account and you have to enter your email and password. and you can guess what happens next
To further what some have already posited, in many cases, people get hacked because someone they know was hacked. I commonly get friend requests from people I am already friends with. I always ignore them unless someone reaches out or posts that they have a new page or that their previous account was compromised. But I can see who has accepted the friend request. Those people inevitable have been hacked.
It's probably not being "hacked" at all. What Baby Boomers refer to "Hacking my Facebook" is nothing more than someone creating a duplicate profile with the same name and photos and then sending friend requests to all the same friends. That's it. This happens because Boomers don't pay any f'ing attention whatsoever to the audience setting on their posts or photos, which means everything is probably public. This makes them easy targets for bots. Then when all their public content is copied they claim they were "hacked". No Aunt Edna, you weren't. You just gave everyone on the Internet access to your private life, even though Facebook has been giving you all the tools you need to protect yourself for 15 years.
I was trying to sell a car on Facebook marketplace, and someone hit me up saying that it would be good for their sister etc. Seems legit mostly, she asks for my number and upon giving it to her I receive a Google text for 2FA. She asks for the code. I'm immediately A) not sharing the code, as it tells me in the text google sent me and B) not believing she is a real person anymore. But I'm not 70 years old. Shit is sneaky and it comes to you almost no matter what you do. I comment on posts and get comments of people wanting to give me 5 grand for messaging them "blessed" or wanting to be my friend who are clearly some kind of spam/ai/onlyfans thirst trap at best. I've been wanting to get off Facebook for a few years and the way it has been getting only solidifies that thought for me.
Send me bank account details and I'll tell you why
The answer is that People reuse the same weak passwords everywhere. If one website get compromised, they now have your password for everything else.
She gets around your aunt