Facebook account hackers arrested
VOV.VN - Police based in the central city of Da Nang and in Trieu Phong district of the central province of Quang Tri have arrested two people for illegally appropriating property on social media.
The suspects were identified as Cao Van Hieu, 28, and Mai Thanh Quoc, 26, both of whom were residing in Trieu Phong district.
According to initial information given by authorities, the pair set up fake websites before sending links to the Facebook accounts of Vietnamese people living abroad.
When the account owners logged into the websites, their passwords were stolen, and their Facebook accounts were subsequently taken control of by the hackers.
Police forces revealed that since the beginning of this year, the gang has successfully defrauded about VND10 billion from victims by hacking into approximately 1,000 Facebook accounts.
The suspects used gaming accounts in order to launder the stolen money in an attempt to stop the money being traced.
The police are now in the process of contacting victims of the case for further investigation.
