End of day update on the current Maass Facebook hack:
They don't have control of their accounts back yet.
FA: today's vlog has not been updated. The posts from "Bea" (she's pretty great) mocking Priscilla are still up. Humpers are still trickling in all confused. He's lost thousands of followers.
PP&P: no updates there, not that any were expected. This page has also lost 1000+ followers. Humpers in the replies saying they're blocking the page. The entity that took over this account doesn't seem to be deleting comments warning of the hack anymore, nor have they posted their scam links yet.
Lipstick Mama: no updates - and there should be tons of updates from the Slimeapalooza. This is so bad for her busineth. No humpers asking questions in the comments.
More Maass: no updates, no humpers in comments.
Priscilla's personal account: still seems to be gone
I'll take Fatass at his word that all these accounts were compromised. He wouldn't be replying from Isaiah's account looking like a goddamn moron if it wasn't the truth.
The lack of public activity on these accounts is interesting.
1. It's possible that FB has locked the accounts down on the backend and that nobody can access them right now. It would be unusual for Meta to act that quickly, given that the hack seems to have taken place/been discovered Saturday, but anything's possible.
2. If the accounts are still in control of the third party, this is likely a more sophisticated takeover than the pump & dump crypto scam that was used on Youtube. If the third party maintains control of the accounts they'll likely "go dormant" for some weeks or a couple months so that the remaining followers lower their guard before "waking up" to begin longer-term activities. The hackers (for lack of a better term) could be looking to do a number of things down the line. None of them are good. Getting control of these accounts, though, is a Big Deal. FA itself has an enormous following and just now, at base level, these hackers have access to some degree of personal information about 1.5 million Facebook accounts who follow FA. Going forward they can do all sorts of things from running fraudulent ads to hacking followers using DMs (these are not bright people, and a not insignificant number of them would send money or click on links if the great Asa Maass himself DMed them) to disseminating literal propaganda.
3. As an aside, just to point out something funny, if Asa had any credit/debit cards on file with his business Faccebook account to run ads or buy things or whatever, the hackers immediately went on a spending spree.
4. I've been investigating reports online about people getting their Facebook business accounts hacked, what things looked like from the pageowner's point of view, what steps people have taken to recover accounts, etc etc. Atha was kind enough, in his panic posting on Monday, to have given me a few helpful tidbits about what sort of hack they've experienced. A lot of people who got hacked the same way he did......never got their accounts back. I'm not saying that's the definite outcome here but given Meta's long track record of customer service - there is a chance that all of the above hacked pages are gone for good.
Now we settle in and wait to see what happens.