PRIVATE Facebook accounts have been hijacked and used to sell everything from drills to bikes, police said. Det Insp Ian Magrath, who leads the Wiltshire Police digital investigations and intelligence unit and complex fraud team, said officers had seen the tactic used “several times in the last couple of months”. “Your account is effectively taken over and people then use your profile to sell Makita drills, a bike or a lawnmower,” he told the Adver. He urged people to ensure they used different passwords and make sure they were changing them regularly. The detective warned: “You can go onto the Dark Web – not even the Dark Web, you can go onto the web – and buy lists and lists of passwords that are dumped onto the internet.
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