Dozens of State AGs Call on Meta to Take ‘Immediate Action’ After ‘Dramatic Increase’ in Account Takeovers

Compromised accounts allow the threat actor to access the user’s personal or business information, private messages, and contacts.
Dozens of State AGs Call on Meta to Take ‘Immediate Action’ After ‘Dramatic Increase’ in Account Takeovers
A smartphone and a computer screen displaying the logos of the social network Facebook and its parent company Meta on Jan. 12, 2023. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images
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Forty-one state attorneys general signed a letter demanding that Meta take “immediate action” to address the “dramatic increase” in account takeovers and lockouts on its social media platforms.

The letter, addressed to Jennifer Newstead, Meta’s chief legal officer, states that the attorney general offices have received an alarming number of complaints from Facebook and Instagram account holders whose accounts have been compromised by “threat actors,” adding that it has also put a “substantial drain on our office resources.”
Jana J. Pruet
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