600,000+ compromised account logins every day on Facebook, official figures reveal

[Jack]

If you've an unauthorised party has logged into your Facebook account, then you're far from alone.

New official statistics revealed by the social networking giant reveal that 0.06% of the more than billion logins that they have each day are compromised.

Put another way, that's more than 600,000 per day - or, if you really like to make your mind melt, one every 14 milliseconds.

The statistic was revealed in an infographic published alongside an official Facebook blog post trumpeting new security features introduced by the firm.

The new security features include Trusted friends (called "Guardian angels" in the infographic).

Facebook says that you will be able to nominate three to five "trusted" frineds who can help you if you have a problem accessing your account - if, for instance, someone else has changed its password and locked you out of your email account. The idea is that if you need to login to Facebook but can't access your email account, Facebook will send codes to your friends that they can pass on to you.


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[Luke[Dumke480]]

now all you need is one of those nifty did you know videos and this would actually blow my mind.

heheh

 

[imsoadude]

Wow, thats insane so many people getting hacked and still everyone uses facebook

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

I think it's the time to move to google+

 

[Luke[Dumke480]]

Google+ probably don't have the same amount of flaws, but G+ will some sort functionality flaw eventually.

 

[jamescv7]

For Google+ is still new for social networking so none of the incidents happen.

For Facebook its like they need to tight more security and hardened it.

 

[Exorcizm]

I posted this as my facebook status and no one cared, i swear the generations get dumber and dumber, i only use FB because of my girlfriend, and i did have mine deleted at one stage.

 

[jamescv7]

Well most of the people knows that facebook was designed to be communicate with friends nothing more and nothing less.