![]() I am aware I may have already uninstalled this app within the last couple weeks not realizing what was going on. I also never download 3rd party apps, only through the Google Play store. I am on android and always try to be careful with downloading apps that may be suspicious. I ran deep malware and antivirus scans and everything came up clean. They believe this came from my phone, meaning an app scraped my email login info off my phone. The host also ran a security check and found that there were zero failed login attempts and no security flags were raised on the server end. (so if I had changed my email’s PW at that very beginning of this, all of this would have been prevented, sigh.) Yep, someone did, and at all the times I was receiving FB messages about password resets and other stuff while I slept. ![]() I contacted my site’s hosting provider and told them what happened and asked for them to check if any other IP address other than my own accessed the email that night. I then thought it had to do with my email. The next day I found that didn’t matter and they got in anyway.īecause I am so cautious with all of this stuff, I figured it wasn’t on FB’s end. ![]() I deleted the email from my phone, logged into FB on my PC and changed my PW just to be safe and then went to bed. I did not do this and immediately thought something was up. Right before bedtime I got a notice from FB saying a password reset was requested and here’s the code to do it. I knew there was no way they brute forced their way into this account. All my PWs are different from one site/app to the next, and I use long PWs with lower/upper/numbers/symbols. I am a tech person and very security cautious. They changed my name and pic, friended someone (I assume to scrape my data) and then posted something that triggered the algorithms to suspend the account. All rights reserved.Sorry, I have a story first… Two days ago my Facebook account was hacked into. The settlement must be approved by a federal court before it can go into effect, the FTC said.Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. Microsoft policy was to hold that data no longer than 14 days in order to allow players to pick up account creation where they left off if they were interrupted. McCarthy also said the company had identified and fixed a technical glitch that failed to delete child accounts in cases where the account creation process never finished. These mostly concern efforts to improve age verification technology and to educate children and parents about privacy issues. In a blog post, Microsoft corporate vice president for Xbox Dave McCarthy outlined additional steps the company is now taking to improve its age verification systems and to ensure that parents are involved in the creation of child accounts for the service. Those actions violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC stated. The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console.
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