<p>'Facebook' is the largest social networking site in the world with more than 800 million members who spend more than a total of 700 billion minutes on the site per month.<br /><br />Out of more than a billion logins to the website every 24 hours, 600,000 are impostors attempting to access users' messages, photos and other personal information, according to 'Facebook'.<br /><br />The figure was revealed as part of a 'Facebook' blog post announcing a couple of new security measures being implemented across the site over the coming weeks to tackle these sorts of breaches, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.<br /><br />Security experts have said the figure is a "big concern" and that people need to be more careful when choosing their passwords and responding to offers supposedly from friends on 'Facebook'.<br /><br />Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, a computer security organisation, said: "When a Facebook login is compromised, it means that someone else, the hacker, has taken control of that account.<br /><br />"When a hacker takes over a user's Facebook account, they can post images, send messages and access all of that person’s private information in one fail swoop. Facebook has had a lot of security issues which it is now trying to address."<br /><br />He also warned that growing numbers of teenagers are hacking into the Facebook accounts of their school rivals in order to post malicious messages and photos on their behalf.<br />Facebook has declined to comment.</p>
<p>'Facebook' is the largest social networking site in the world with more than 800 million members who spend more than a total of 700 billion minutes on the site per month.<br /><br />Out of more than a billion logins to the website every 24 hours, 600,000 are impostors attempting to access users' messages, photos and other personal information, according to 'Facebook'.<br /><br />The figure was revealed as part of a 'Facebook' blog post announcing a couple of new security measures being implemented across the site over the coming weeks to tackle these sorts of breaches, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.<br /><br />Security experts have said the figure is a "big concern" and that people need to be more careful when choosing their passwords and responding to offers supposedly from friends on 'Facebook'.<br /><br />Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, a computer security organisation, said: "When a Facebook login is compromised, it means that someone else, the hacker, has taken control of that account.<br /><br />"When a hacker takes over a user's Facebook account, they can post images, send messages and access all of that person’s private information in one fail swoop. Facebook has had a lot of security issues which it is now trying to address."<br /><br />He also warned that growing numbers of teenagers are hacking into the Facebook accounts of their school rivals in order to post malicious messages and photos on their behalf.<br />Facebook has declined to comment.</p>