Banks are using Facebook apps to acquire user details illegally, according to security veteran Roger Thompson from AVG. Roger has reached this conclusion as a result of his own personal experience. Apparently he was in London to attend a conference. Because of being abroad Rogers bank suspected his credit card transactions and decided to decline and suspend his credit card. Till here everything is pretty standard procedure, that banks use to weed out fraudulent transactions.
However things became complicated when Roger called the bank to have his card get unsuspended. The bank asked him personal identifying questions such as the last four digits of his social security number and so on. But then suddenly, the representative from the bank started to ask him questions about his daughter-in-law, using her maiden name. The representative claimed that they know about her from publicly available information.
