THAT SILLY quiz on Facebook looks fun. One of your friends just filled it out, as you can see from a new post to your newsfeed encouraging you to fill it out, too. So you do.
Among the jokey questions you get asked are your mother’s maiden name, the name of your first pet, your childhood nickname, all used to produce a funny result, automatically posted to all of your friends’ newsfeeds. What a laugh!
A few days later you go to an ATM before heading to lunch – and your card pops back out. No money in the account. You’ve just been social engineered on your social network.
Using information posted on your profile and typed into that funny app – your mother’s maiden name was your reminder for retrieving your password on your online banking site, remember? – hackers had no problem cleaning out your bank account.