When it comes to passwords, I don’t have a large variety. I’m not going to go into specifics but finding out one of mine can easily lead you to the next. I know I’m not alone with this. Having different passwords for each account, whether it’s an email, membership, etc., can be overwhelming. The other day, I found something new about Facebook’s past.
BusinessInsider.com had an article from March 2010 about Mark Zuckerburg, Facebook CEO, hacking into student emails. Harvard’s student newspaper, the Crimson, was going to publish an article about Facebook controversy and false allegations against Zuckerberg in 2004. This was after one of the Crimson’s editors told Zuckerberg that he wasn’t going to publish it.
Allegedly, Zuckerberg was too impatient to wait for the story to publish and tried to access some of the Crimson members’ student emails. Supposedly, he used the students’ failed logins on Facebook (“TheFacebook” at the time) to guess their student email passwords. He hacked on to the email accounts and read all information related to him and the story.
Facebook was contacted about the matter in 2010 and simply stated that they were not going to debate small litigations with anonymous sources that are “seeking to rewrite Facebook’s early history.”
Of course, it really doesn’t matter now whether or not Zuckerberg did it because he now has a net worth of over $13.5 billion with a company that reaches out to more than 500 million people. Even though this specific case is left cold, is it really possible for Facebook to have access to our failed logins? I couldn’t find a direct answer, but why wouldn’t they?
If this is the case, I believe everyone needs to be aware of this. Facebook passwords should be different than other accounts and emails. Having the same password for everything may be easy for you, but don’t forget it would also be even easier for a hacker that is attempting to steal your identity.
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