Multi - user accounts at Pinterest were abused by one spam campaign promoting weight loss products and giveaways. The cmfaceher by clicking heres report that they are aware of spam and that they are taking steps to stop it.
Η expert Hermione Way was among the first to report that her account was violated and abusively published hundreds of women's images before and after a diet, as well as links that promoted gifts.
In spam you can read something like this: "I could not believe it when I lost 6 lbs" (pounds = unit of weight of the English measurement system), "I lost 10 lbs in the first two weeks", "Seriously the best thing I have never tried ”or“ I was amazed when it really worked and I lost 14 lbs ”
"Our systems were on alert for some spam incidents last night. These violations did not take place on a large scale. We started working on clearing and making the accounts safe. The accounts have since been secured, "Pinterest representatives told TechCrunch .
The company advises users to use a single and at the same time very strong password accesss to protect their accounts from such attacks.
The Daily Mail states that the spam campaign is not the result of a website problem. Instead, spammers violated various websites that had the "Pin this" host button and replaced the button's legal code with their own. When victims clicked the "Pin this" button on these compromised websites, they sent data to spammers.
This is a pretty clever trick by spammers who by the same logic could get information about facebook accounts, twitter etc. Like any major social networking service, Pinterest struggles to keep spammers out, but the task is not easy. This is why users should always be careful when surfing the internetnetwork to avoid websites that "smell" of fraud or that have insufficient security.
