But this guy didn't get the password for his facebook account. The "hacker" had Harvard send him a reset password email for the poster's alumni address, which was associated with his facebook. While having strong passwords helps, it wouldn't have mattered in this case.
Ah, social engineering, probably the most efficient way of doing targeted hacking. :)
But still, strong and more importantly unique passwords (I'm bad at this too, but starting to use something like KeePass or LastPass helps) are probably quite a good deterrent to more passive/large scale breaches so it's still good advice. Even if it hadn't helped in this case! ;)
But this guy didn't get the password for his facebook account. The "hacker" had Harvard send him a reset password email for the poster's alumni address, which was associated with his facebook. While having strong passwords helps, it wouldn't have mattered in this case.
Ah, social engineering, probably the most efficient way of doing targeted hacking. :)
But still, strong and more importantly unique passwords (I'm bad at this too, but starting to use something like KeePass or LastPass helps) are probably quite a good deterrent to more passive/large scale breaches so it's still good advice. Even if it hadn't helped in this case! ;)