Another interesting tidbit.

You know that joke Robert Duvall told Sean Penn in Colors? There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: "Hey pop, let's say we run down there and fuck one of them cows". The older one says: "No son. Lets walk down and fuck 'em all".

The buzz in the security world these days is that a compromised (hijacked/hacked) Facebook or Twitter account is more valuable than a stolen credit card number.

The logic being, a stolen credit card number...they make a run on it, but it is usually shut down pretty quick.

But, a person identifies so much useful information in a social media account - that you can take that info and create a second, fake identity of the victim. Then you can buy cars, obtain several credit cards, loans, instant credit jewelery accounts...true identity theft.