Nearly 50,000 people across 100 countries have had their Facebook and Instagram accounts compromised by seven “surveillance-for-hire” groups. The groups aimed to collect intelligence, manipulate users into revealing information, and compromise their devices, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said. There are three phases the groups go through to collect information ; The first stage involves gathering information from blogs, social media, Wikipedia, and “dark web” sites. The second is the most visible to targets, establishing contact with them in to get them to click on malicious links or files. The final stage is “hacking for hire” which includes practices like phishing. How do you know you were affected

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