Facebook Hackers from the Future!
I got this email from Facebook today, and apparently my account was accessed on an iPhone by someone in the future! OMG HAX.
Either today is the day I successfully complete my time machine (made exclusively from broken pieces of the Large Hadron Collider) – or hackers in the future are wreaking havoc in my account, and there’s nothing I can do about it! At least Facebook were kind enough to notify me…
In reality this is happening because I’m in GMT+11 and Facebook’s servers in San Francisco are in GMT-8, making for an awesome 19-hour time difference. Unfortunately this makes my story far more mundane, so I’m sticking with hax0rs from the future. I think the guys at Facebook may want to disambiguate this email somewhat by putting in the date/time in UTC.
If you too want to be notified when there are unexpected logins to your Facebook account, check out my post on Facebook’s Suspicious Login Tracking.
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Are you sure that email is from Facebook, I mean legitimate?. Be careful with phishing methods.
Hi Javier,
Indeed, this is something everyone should be wary of. A phishing attack telling the user that there’s been a suspicious login on their account is likely to be quite successful at obtaining usernames and passwords.
In my case it’s definitely legitimate, as I received the email a few seconds after logging in via my iPhone.
Thanks tho ;)
P.S. You wouldn’t get any spam from me ;-p