Facebook users beware: Innocent personal details you share are hacker’s gold


Malicious hackers look closely at the answers that Facebook users post about their pets, hometowns, children’s names and other pieces of information. And they make lists of them hoping to crack the passwords to the posters’ private accounts, said Baltzersen. — Design vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com

Remember the name of your first street? What about that first concert you attended? How about the name of your first pet?

Those questions and many others just like them are increasingly popping up on Facebook, generating scores of responses from people innocently offering up tidbits of their lives that, experts warn, can fall into the hands of cyber-crooks.

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