Security News > 2020 > February > Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news
2020-02-10 06:09
FACEBOOK HACKED. An otherwise slow Friday afternoon has been spiced up by a hacker crew that managed to temporarily take control of Facebook's official Twitter account.
Exposed details included name, address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number, and Medicaid ID number.
FBI warns of attacks targeting voter registration sites.
The FBI recently sent some of security industry partners a notification after logging a DDoS attack attempt against a voter registration site.
The Feds said the attack was carried out for around a month against an unspecified state's registration portal.
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