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"Control Your Info" - they hijack hundreds of Facebook groups
Brandon Davenport
Facebook groups are under attack -- Facebook was hit on Tuesday by a well-meaning intruder called "Control your info", who took over hundreds of peoples groups as a way of sending a message: "Think about the safety in your social media life to the same extent you do in your real life."
According to Control Your Info, when an administrator steps down anyone can take over a group, view members' personal information, and change group information to say whatever they want. So in order to take control of a Facebook group all you really have to do is a quick search on Google. Control Your Info believes that the way Facebook handles group administration is a major flaw, and it wants to bring that to everyone's attention.
Some of the messages posted to hijacked groups include, "Hello, we hereby announce that we have officially hijacked your Facebook group," a message written on Monday said. "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 severely."
Facebook is planning to take care of this next week. Has your group been hijacked?
Read more - Cnet Webware
