How “easy” is it to hack someone’s social media account?

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[josiekshesok]

I listened to a podcast that did a pretty interesting ‘investigation’ on this (basically hired a hacker to attempt to get their coworkers hacked), it was insightful to learn the strategies they used with two factor authentication etc etc. It was episode 97 of the ReplyAll podcast, would recommend!

[calemedia]

It’s basically impossible companies like Facebook and Twitter have the best of the best and spent millions deploying the best of the best security.

The only way to “hack” someone is with social engineering to trick them into giving you the password or tricking them into downloading a virus.

Almost every big company has a bug bounty program and if you managed to find a bug that gives you access to an account you’re talking about $100,000 reward.

[ivapelocal]

What you (and everyone) needs to be watching for are Chrome extensions related to social media ads. For example, hackers running ads that say, “Get a 30% Ad Spend Credit by Signing Up…”, you sign up and they grab your cookies and session info, and device specs, and add someone to your FB business manager. If you don’t catch it they will run up your ad spend big time.

We had this happen earlier this year. They spent $60k but we got it back in about 48 hours. I’m still seeing them running ads to this day.

As far as other types of hacks, I don’t know anything about the subject.

[learned_cheetah]

I don’t think its THAT easy to hack someone’s social media account.

You can’t do it without them committing a blunder themselves like clicking on a link you sent them through a phishing email, etc. Another way is “zero-day” vulnerabilities in all kinds of software which can be used to hack any random dude’s account even without requiring their co-operation in clicking, etc. But such zero-day vulnerabilities are quite rare and keep getting rendered useless day after day as software gets updated. Only a few intel agencies (CIA/NSA/Mossad) have a fresh supply of such zero-days which always work. But the evidence so far suggests that they are well guarded and kept in good secrecy (otherwise there’d be upheaval all over the world by now!).

[RampartAdmin]

Your question is about the same as:

“How hard is it for someone to break into a house?”

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