AIM and Twitter accounts are a phisher’s dream. A writer/producer from Brooklyn noticed some odd behavior on her Facebook page the next day. Hackers were using her account to play the sympathies of her friends and try to extort money from them. A hacker was posting status updates and messages on Facebook that she had been mugged in London and needed money to get home. She contacted the FBI and Facebook and the FBI cyber unit. It’s the social media sites that do you in. We trust links we get from friends via AIM messages, sometimes to a fault.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/tales-of-password-hacking-woe-5878505