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   Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 01:00:49 JST Dan Goodin

   Can anyone help me help a friend recover his compromised Facebook account? He's not sure how it got hijacked, but someone is using it to reach out to people, make a friend request, and then ask them out on dates. He's an investigative reporter, so it's not clear if this is a targeted attack attempting to meddle with confidential sources or an opportunistic one doing something like pig butchering. In any event, the compromised account poses a threat to Facebook users. My friend has tried recovering his account by sending FB a scan of his driver license, but the recovery link he gets gives him an error when he clicks on it. Does anyone reading this work in security at FB, or know someone who does? I (and my friend) would be so grateful for any help. Please DM me, preferably by Signal (DanArs.82) or here on Mastodon.

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     Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 01:11:09 JST Dan Goodin

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     Reupping this request for help from someone at Facebook to help restore a journalist's hijacked account. As mentioned before, he has sent Facebook a scan of his driver license on multiple occasions and received a reset links, but they always fail to work. Please boost for reach.

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     Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 01:14:00 JST Dan Goodin

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog

     The problem is someone is using his current account to masqurade as him. Creating a new account from scratch won't stop that.