Seeking the Truth Behind Weinergate: Does Facebook Really Send Warnings When an Account is Hacked? …Update: Weiner’s Team Lies to NY Post
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, May 29, 2011, 10:55 AM
Earlier this year my Facebook account was hacked. An ad was sent out to all of my contacts advertising some product. My friends replied to me and told me my account was hacked.
Facebook never contacted me.
On Friday far left Rep. Anthony Weiner said his twitter and Facebook accounts were hacked. He said this after a picture of his penis was reportedly sent out to a young woman in Seattle.
Here’s her picture.
The New York Post reported this morning that Anthony Weiner said he was warned a week ago that his Facebook account might have been hacked.
Weiner, who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn, got a message about a week ago from Facebook alerting him that his password might have been tampered with, Arnold said.
But the warning was ignored, granting the hacker carte blanche to hijack Weiner’s online identity.
So, since when does Facebook send out warnings that a page “might have been” hacked?
Just wondering.
Doug Ross posted the complete Weinergate timeline.
UPDATE: Weiner’s spokesman lied to The New York Post.
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Valerie commented:
If there was a warning sent, there’s a record of it.
Just sayin’.
Jenny commented:
sounds fishy to me. Facebook rarely does anything helpful.
Daniel commented:
I can’t believe that hot dog.
John03 commented:
Was Wiener’s account hacked or was his weaner hacked?
shibumi commented:
“So, since when does Facebook send out warnings that a page “might have been” hacked?
Just wondering.”
Ask me, ask me!
answer: When the hackee is a Democrat politico that they support.
Freddy commented:
When a politician needs cover from his own actions. Then, the media prints it up like it is real.
CatoRenasci commented:
It must have been a phising e-mail!
L.E. Liesner commented:
Maybe if you would become a liberal, Facebook would have notified you too. I’m sure you know that liberals have certain rights that are not afforded to the rest of us.
wolf t. commented:
It probably took Wiener a week’s worth of playing with it to stiffen it for the picture!
ert commented:
The girl in Seattle has a similar skin tone, he’s probably into….but his wife is a stunner, and way out of his league. He might be that stupid.
KOW commented:
They do have on screen warnings. Meaning, if someone tries to log into you account from a location/IP that it is not familiar with you using, it will make the new location/IP prove it is the real person. Then when you log into your account from the normal location, it will tell you someone tried to log into the account and it will give the city of the IP they used.
Saying all that, if he tried to log into his account from Seattle, it would give him a warning, even if it was him.
KOW commented:
I should say, this is all on screen, though I have not been all that active in doing “things” on Facebook in months, so things may of changed, but it usually is just on screen blocking access to the account.
Gandalf commented:
Looks like his wiener is in the bun
Joe College commented:
Obama is quite chummy with Zuckenburg. I do not doubt Zuckenburg with throw this little perk to help out the Dems.
TGC commented:
The question is: Do FB hacks ever send just one message to one person? From what I’ve seen, they send the Spam to everybody on the friend list. I’d be suspicious of his claims if it was only one person.
The question of whether Anthony’s Weiner is stupid enough to do this is too easy.
Guest #7 commented:
Regardless if his Facebook was hacked, how would that lead to a photo being placed on his yfrog account? Twitter does send out a warning email if your account has been hacked, I got one myself.
Chisum commented:
Ace has a whole list of great questions!
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The Chad commented:
I had facebook send me a notification that someone had tried to access my account from L.A.
I live in Milwaukee.
Changed passwords and haven’t had a problem since.
ant commented:
I guess college really does not guarantee you a position after graduating. She describes herself as ‘progressive…humanitarian’, big surprise from a journo wannabe, but didn’t any of her professors warn her “prog..humanitarian” is a dying breed?
Buffalobob commented:
Wiener’s Wiener? Or Maher’s nose?
avery commented:
Weiner is a Disgrace, to our Govement.
Havok commented:
Unless you set your Acct/privacy settings to opt out.. Facebook has been using user Pictures in Advertisements.
His acct wasn’t hacked.. he is an idiot who wants to do what Dems do.. lie their way out of bad situations. And even Democrat & Attorney Peter Johnson Jr. on Fox repeatedly stated that Wiener is intentionally NOT telling the truth, when he was on there pushing Obama-care so strongly.
Old One commented:
#21 Avery,
Are there any democrat who aren’t a disgrace? Certainly none of them are in DC.Time to give the entire federal government a flush.
Valerie commented:
Ok, I have looked over this story and the links, and now I have a question or two.
Assuming Weiner himself sent the dumb picture, why the near-immediate efforts to clean up?
I can think of two possibilities: 1) It was a real hack, or 2) He sent the picture himself, but unintentionally sent it through the wrong account.
Also, if I were a geek sophisticated enough to get on this and fix it in that time frame, I’d have sense enough to keep my damn mouth shut if some reporter asked me about it, because this had to be a pre-rehearsed response. Educating hackers serves no good purpose.
SpideyTerry commented:
You can set it up so that Facebook will alert you via text if an unregistered machine (basically, one that isn’t your computer) logs into your account. Still, if it’s true, then he’s a damn idiot. Just what you want from an elected official, huh? One that ignores warnings no matter how small.
jimg commented:
alerting him that his password might have been tampered with
I have never received this message. I know of no one else who’s ever received this message.
Getting notified someone is attempting to log onto your account is one thing.
Getting notified someone is messing with your password deals with an entirely different level of security that they don’t have. If Facebook was capable of detecting what he claims, nobody’s account would ever be hacked because the safeguards would already be in place.
The dude is a liar. He never got that message because it doesn’t exist.
John03 commented:
So did the headlines this morning read: “WIENER HACKED!!!!”
I’ll bet that would draw some attention.
Chip Bennett commented:
Facebook does give warnings if unknown IPs login (or attempt to login) to your account. It is one of the few useful security measures that Facebook takes.
(Note: you may have to enable this notification; I’m not sure if it’s enabled by default.)
wanumba commented:
Is a progressive humanitairan someone who talks it up, but doesn’t actually DO anything?
Joe Camarillo commented:
I hope someone comes up with something better than facebook. I like the soscializing but it acts screwy when I try to post anti-Obama or anti- liberal messages.
Stuart commented:
Considering:
Obama suggests he is part Polish because he lived in Chicago.
On the rodeo circuit women are riding stick toy ponies because their horses have herpes.
And a U.S. Congressman sends e-mail pictures of his “package” to a young woman.
Now I have but one question.
WHO THE HELL SLIPPED THE LSD INTO MY COFFEE?
Joe College commented:
A comment at HotAir: “Wow. He is really far left.”
vagabond trader commented:
Gotta be a smoking weiner in this story.
Cindy commented:
I have changed my Facebook password twice in the last couple of months, and both times I received an email that stated someone had changed the password, and if it was not me, please notify them. It did not come as a message on Facebook.
But I still believe this guy is lying.
Dianna commented:
Maybe My Space instead of Facebook?
Bloggy Bayou commented:
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bitterclinger commented:
He sure has a thang for those “furren” looking wimmins, huh?
ert commented:
Why would a politician (even a deranged Democrat) upload an erotic photo to a picture server at all? Guilty or innocent, nothing adds up.
jimg commented:
and both times I received an email that stated someone had changed the password, and if it was not me, please notify them.
Correct. If it’s been changed. Meaning you logged in under the old password and changed it.
Try to change it without actually being successful – like Weiner’s saying happened prior to the alleged hack – that somebody was tampering with his password … and see what happens.
Nothing will happen.
(btw, I’m agreeing with you. simply pointing out his claim is bunk.)
Iconoclast commented:
Ah, yes, the ankle-pants / Gennifer Flowers trick. Deny, deny; admit a little, deny, deny . . . until you cannot maintain the facade but the public has lost interest. Progs are so predictable – and so vile.
Andreas K. commented:
From what I know they don’t. FB is not Blizzard or Trion, they don’t take action in such cases.
If, for example, your account gets “hacked” on Yahoo, the “hackers” will usually spam the crap out of everyone on your contact list. Seen it often enough. Any other “hack” on FB, myspace, etc, isn’t any different.
This sounds like a very poor excuse to me.
Show me the email of the warning, preferably the entire source code, cause with that it’s easy to tell if it’s legit or not.