Social media quizzes – especially popular on Facebook – seem innocent
enough. But taking the quiz might mean you are giving away more about
yourself than you originally thought, and may extend to your friends as
well.
These quizzes ask seemingly silly or useless questions, but
hackers can use that information to penetrate your social accounts and
gain access to your personal information or the information of your
friends and family.
Some quizzes are designed to steal your data in an outright scam. Once
answered, hackers can easily hijack personal accounts and use them to
lure in more victims. The hackers will include links embedded in the
quiz that can cause a security breach of your personal accounts.
But
the latest news shows that it isn’t just scammers who are interested in
your quiz answers. It turns out, your personal information is big
business.
Not all
social media quizzes are about unprincipled data collection, but the Better Business Bureau cautions users to be careful about what they share online. Profile data,
quiz answers, and more can be used to used to steal your money, or let a
scammer pretend to be you in order to steal someone else’s money.
