Facebook [not] hacked for $100

ACCORDING TO insecurity outfit Pandalabs, Russian cyber-criminals advertising a Facebook account hack service are even worse than you'd have thought they were in the first place.

The 'firm' in question is asking for $100, for which it will provide customers with login and password details to any requested Facebook account. "Any Facebook account can be hacked", claim the shady Russian louts on various ads scattered around the Internet.

Although you might expect most people would want to use this to hack into some ex-friend's account and write rude things in their status updates, the hackers also suggest that some users might want to access celebrity accounts as well. Naughty naughty.

To further entice the unwary into its scheme the firm offers a confusing points system whereby you would be given twenty credits for every account that you choose to hack. This suggests that if the service is real, you'll get one free account hacked for every five accounts you pay to have hacked.

However it gets worse. Pandalabs said the service is probably a sort of phishing attack and likely designed to harvest personal information and payment details from people who probably deserve it in the first place.

In order to give itself an air of legitimacy the company claims to have been doing this for four years. Is it actually Mark Zuckerberg? But again Pandalabs found this to be a heinous lie, as in fact the company's domain had only been live for a few days

Luis Corrons, technical director of Pandalabs, said, "The system's real purpose may be hacking Facebook accounts as they say, or profiting from those that want to try the service. In any case, the Web page is very well designed. It is easy to contract the service and become, either the victim of an online fraud, or a cyber-criminal and accomplice in identity theft."

We can't wait to read what his next Facebook status update says. µ