The Official Facebook page of the Famous rock band Linkin Park has been hacked, and its 62 million fans bombarded with spam messages containing coarse images and out-of-character links to third-party sites.
Well it seems like someone appears to have committed a crime by accessing Linkin Park’s Facebook account without authorisation, it would have been much more worrying if the links had been crafted to appear as they really did come from the band, and had directed fans to webpages that had attempted to infect their computers with malware or phish their login details! You know.., fans are crazy!
For example, it’s easy to imagine how an announcement of a free concert or a link to a previously-unreleased track could have sent millions of Linkin Park fans towards a boobytrapped webpage designed to plant dangerous malware onto their PCs.
But, this hack doesn't seemed to be malicious, maybe it simply was a troublemaker.
Promotion is done these days via social networking sites like Facebook, and when a fan page gets hacked and starts sending out irritating messages, your fans are sure to run away.
As some fans commented, the hack was resulting in Linkin Park losing thousands of Facebook fans as they un-liked the page to spare themselves from the loads of spam messages.
At the time of writing, Linkin Park’s Facebook page appears to have removed the offending messages, and normal service have been restored.
We hope that the page’s admins will look closely at what occurred, And check whether safer password practices and two-factor authentication might have better kept Facebook page safe.
All organisation with a Facebook presence need to take proper care of their page’s security, or risk having it hacked and defaced by attackers. Poorly protected Facebook pages get hacked every day and its really not a big deal.
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