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27 May 2024

Facebook account takeovers are targeting people you know, turning friendship into fraud

Author: admintech | Filed under: Finance/ Money
A woman with short, light brown hair and blue eyes wearing a purple top looks to the side.

A New Brunswick woman says her Facebook account was hijacked then used to swindle her friends out of thousands of dollars. All the while, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, did nothing to stop the crime in progress. A cybercrime expert says Canada needs regulations that force companies to respond quickly to urgent situations.