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Social Network Spamming by Harvard13(m): 9:49pm On Sep 10, 2015
This is kinda long but its my true life experience that happened this afternoon. read it
i had been hearing stories but i confirmed it today...it happened to me.
i got bored in the office today so i decided to log into Facebook using the office system while watching slam dunk contest on YouTube. a friend of mine just messaged me asking if i was the one that posted that "shit" on my wall. thinking it was one of those jokes, i ignored him. i later had something to do and when i came back, a colleague of mine was watching videos but my Facebook tab was still open. i got a message notification and another of my friends told me that my account was hacked that i should delete what was uploaded and change my password only for the other guy to send me the link of the video that the hacker shared.
behold, the hacker tagged 495 of my friends (99 on each video) to 5 porn video links. i was shocked! i visited my profile and saw that d first one was done about 10 minutes before and that d hacker was still online.
i tried deleting d link but d delete didn't pop on the screen so i went to privacy settings and after changing many things, i changed my password. then Facebook asked if my account was illegally logged into(i wonder how they knew) and i replied yes so i was taken through some security checks and stuff and i could finally delete the 5 videos.
i entered my profile again to see that the person had uploaded another. i had to logout every account that my Facebook was opened in(through their help command) then deleted it.
I'm sharing this story because it could have happened to anyone and thank God i was online when it happened else many people would have seen some annoying stuff.
just beware of all these social media and internet stuff..it wasn't a funny experience today

yes, also don't judge people u don't know by social media. I'm happy my friends didn't judge me because of the incident.
Cc: lalasticlala

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