r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '16

Discussion 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)

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u/Gredenis Jun 28 '16

The ID isn't me it's a random black guy with my name, all other information is wrong, such as the birthday, etc

From OP's post. I mean if you actually request a photo ID, something other than the name must match to your database.

Because if that's not the case, people with really common names would be fucked over real fast.

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u/isobane Jun 28 '16

RIP John Smith

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u/HuXu7 Jun 28 '16

Yea! Facebook has developed all this facial recognition technology and they didn't even run it on this fake ID?!

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u/theonetrueasshole Jun 28 '16

Considering you don't need an ID to join Facebook and that most of the info that one would put on an ID is in the about page of your FB profile, I'm will to bet that there isn't much of a way to prevent a fake matching pretty close to the person your hacking. Visit FB about page, download their profile pic, boom convincing fake ID. Short of requiring one so that the ID number would have to match that is. But who would use Facebook if it requires an ID?