Facebook logins sold on dark web for £2

STOLEN Facebook logins are being sold online for just £2 each – sparking fresh privacy fears after the website was hit by a huge cyber attack last week.

Adverts offering Facebook customers’ account details for sale can be easily accessed on the so- called dark web – a hard-to-access corner of the internet used by criminals to buy drugs, stolen personal details and fake documents. It can take

From Saturday’s Daily Mail just ten minutes for a fraudster with the right software to access dark web sites that claim to sell the log-in details, an investigation found.

After buying these details for a Facebook account, a criminal could access it themselves and see private information such as when a user is away on holiday, where their children go to school and even their bank details if these have been shared in messages. They could also pose as the user to steal their identity or con friends.

The news comes as Facebook tackles the fallout from a hack in which criminals exploited a bug that gave them access to 50million accounts.

The social media giant revealed on Friday that hackers had stolen security details in one of the biggest cyber attacks in history.

The adverts for stolen profiles were discovered by price comparison firm Money Guru. Its researchers also found adverts for credit card numbers, PayPal, Amazon, Tesco and eBay accounts.

They looked at the 26 most commonly used websites with details advertised for sale, and estimated it would cost a fraudster £744 to buy access to them.

James MacDonald, of Money Guru, said ‘This just goes to show how vital it is to protect your data where possible to avoid facing costly consequences.’

Facebook failed to respond to a request for comment last night.