Internet con: The genuine Facebook page of Adml Stavridis, which was imitated by suspected Chinese spiesBritain In Security Alert After Facebook Spies Create False Profile For Top Nato Chief To Steal Personal Data From His High-Ranking Friends -- Daily Mail
* British top brass and MoD officials duped into accepting 'friend requests'
* Fears private details could be used to hack passwords on classified files
Nato's most senior commander has been embroiled in a major security alert after a fake Facebook account was set up in his name by ‘Chinese spies’.
Senior British military officers and Ministry of Defence staff are understood to have accepted ‘friend requests’ from a bogus account for Nato’s Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis.
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