A significant discovery in the recent Aurora attack that affected Google, Adobe, Yahoo and others is that the attackers had selected employees at the companies with access to proprietary data. The hackers compromised the social network account accounts of those friends, hoping to enhance the probability that their final targets would click on the links they sent. Facebook has paid over $4 million to victims to reimburse them for the unauthorized ads purchased using their ad accounts. Read the full article here: 2019 was a tumultuous year for Facebook as it continued to grapple with privacy fallout after Cambridge Analytica.
Source: https://threatpost.com/key-employees-friends-were-facebook-targets-aurora-attacks-012710/73440/