Facebook has become the most popular social network on the net, even surpassing MySpace. So it is obvious that hackers will now target Facebook more. When Bryan Rutberg signed up, expected to find old friends on Facebook. What he didn't expect was for a cyber-criminal to find him and terrorise his friends and relatives.

Two weeks ago, on Rutberg's status read, 'Bryan is in urgent need of help!!!"

Of course he wasn't, he was safe at home in Seattle.

"Somehow cyber-criminals had taken over the access to the page, I had been locked out and someone had changed the email address associated with the account. Somebody meant to do this," says Rutberg.

With the help of Facebook it took about a day for Rutberg to regain access to his account. It appears Facebook is more responsive to such cases than MySpace.

Source: IBN Live

I think we can safely assume that either he was subjected to brute-force password attack or subjected to phishing / social engineering or more likely one of his close friend / relative has retrieved the password from his computer (browsers store the password of sites and can viewed by anyone unless it is password protected) and had his fun.

Should you be concerned? No. I don't think this story hints to any hidden or new vulnerabilities in Facebook. Protect your Facebook password as you would for any important site. Don't save your password in your browser or at least password protect the database.