Compromised Linkin Park Facebook page directs fans to Jay-Z’s album

The official Facebook page of Linkin Park was overrun by hackers intent on bombarding the rock group’s 63 million fans with unbefitting language, images, and links to third party spam sites.

“One of the links even tells LP fans to lookout for Jay-Z’s next album this summer,” HackRead reports.

The band’s devotees were furious over the incident and begged the real administrator to restore order, according to screenshots of comments.

But it could have been worse.

“It would have been much more worrying if the links had been deliberately crafted to appear as though they really did come from the band, and had directed fans to webpages that had attempted to infect their computers with malware or phish their login details,” HotforSecurity reports. “For instance, it’s easy to imagine how an announcement of a free concert or a link to a previously-unreleased track could have sent millions of Linkin Park fans towards a boobytrapped webpage designed to plant malware onto their PCs.”

The band’s brand, however, did take a hit.

“As some fans commented, the hack was resulting in Linkin Park losing thousands of Facebook fans as they un-Liked the page to spare themselves from the spammers’ messages,” HotforSecurity notes.

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