Facebook shuts down Albania Pirate Group
- Facebook web page belonging to the Albania Pirate Group became used to percentage stolen passwords
- Sophos urges users who come upon such Pages to record them to Facebook
SECURITY corporation Sophos has pronounced that stolen passwords and banking data had been being shared on a Facebook page belonging to the Albania Pirate Group.
The organization was contacted closing week through a gentleman who works at a Yorkshire-based security corporation, after he had stumbled throughout the page.
The Facebook web page boasted over 600 fanatics, and members of the Albania Pirate Group had been sharing RDP (Windows Remote Desktop) logins, giving hackers unauthorized get right of entry to to pc structures, and what appeared to be compromised banking info.
The probably touchy records changed into unfastened for everyone to view, even if you hadn't "Liked" the web page.
Sophos also mentioned that the Albania Pirate Group has a similar brand to the Kosova Hacker's Group, who breached servers belonging to america National Weather Service remaining month.
The protection firm contacted Facebook, and within the hour the social network's protection crew had closed down the web page.
“Remember that pages and businesses on Facebook are not pre-vetted, and every body can create a page easily and use it for unlawful functions. If you stumble throughout a Facebook web page which you agree with is worried in regulation-breaking or breaches the terms and situations of the web page, you need to record it to Facebook,” stated Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.