I checked, and I had already set my contact info to be available only to friends. And I don't accept friend requests from total strangers. Although I do have friends of friends.
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/07/22/7142013-hacker-posted-womens-nude-photos-on-their-own-facebook-pages
7/22/2011
By Suzanne Choney
Joseph Bernard Campbell wasn't "just" a cyber stalker haunting and hunting one woman; he was after as many as he could get it seems, hacking between 350 and 500 email accounts. In at least 19 cases, he captured personal, nude and semi-nude photos that the women had emailed to boyfriends, some of them in the military overseas, and then broke into the women's Facebook accounts and made those photos their profile pictures.
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One method Campbell used, Sohl said, was to send emails to the women saying they had received a greeting card. The email instructed the recipients to type in their email addresses and passwords, but did not lead to any greeting cards.
Campbell would use the addresses and passwords to look into the accounts, where he found photographs ...
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Meanwhile, on the West Coast, another man who made it a game to search through women's Facebook pages, search for their email addresses, hack their email and find intimate photos of them, then send them to people on their "contacts" lists, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
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These criminal cases are examples of reasons not to publicly share your email address, even on sites like Facebook. And be aware that it's up to you to not post it.
As msnbc.com's Helen A.S. Popkin noted, in writing about yet another similar case last April, "Facebook privacy settings allow users to hide their email addresses from some or all Facebook users, but it is not the default setting."
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