18. There Are More Than 600,000 Hacking Attempts Made To Facebook Accounts On A Daily Basis
So huge is Facebook nowadays that the world's most-prolific hackers make thousands and thousands of attempts to hack into accounts every day - 600,000 in fact. That's 4.2million a week, 16.8million a month, and 219million every single year. Crazy, isn't it? Safe to suggest things are not as safe on Facebook as you might have thought, if there's that many people trying to get your information...
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So huge is Facebook nowadays that the world's most-prolific hackers make thousands and thousands of attempts to hack into accounts every day - 600,000 in fact. That's 4.2million a week, 16.8million a month, and 219million every single year. Crazy, isn't it? Safe to suggest things are not as safe on Facebook as you might have thought, if there's that many people trying to get your information...