Facebook users get hack while trying to hack friends


Facebook users in India got tricked into hacking their own Facebook accounts, while trying to hack their friends accounts. The scam claimed to offer a tool to find out friends's Facebook passwords, but instead compromised the user’s account by tricking them into using some code that takes control of their account and exposes their friends’s data in the process.
According to Satnam Narang a security response manager for Symantec “What really happens when you paste this code into your browser console window is that a series of actions are performed using your Facebook account without your knowledge.

"Behind the scenes, your account is used to follow lists and users, and give likes to pages in order to inflate the follower and like counts defined by the scammers,”

Next time somebody tells you to insert a code or a javascript to hack one of your friends, know that you are the only one getting hacked.