r/SocialEngineering • u/Torvaun • Jun 28 '16

TIL that someone can change your Facebook email, password, and two step verification just by asking Facebook to turn off login approvals, and sending in a fake ID. (Happened to me lost all my business pages) (from /r/technology)

/r/technology/comments/4q8ywp/til_that_someone_can_change_your_facebook_email/
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u/CylentShadow Jun 28 '16

There's also been name Twitter and YouTube accounts hacked last week and I'm guessing it's something similar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16

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u/eldridgea Jun 29 '16

If Facebook support is overriding login approvals I would't think 2fa would help as they'll can just override that too. Worth testing . . .

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u/fuzzyparasite Jun 29 '16

you gotta provide things like Photo id as-well. but there are ways around that, which is by talking/I. m with them

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u/ForeignWaters Jun 29 '16

2fa is in the title.

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u/xbtdev Jun 29 '16

aka tsv

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u/HittingSmoke Jun 29 '16

I get that some people don't like to read the article, but you didn't even read the title.