September 13, 2010
By: Jana Bell
A group of alleged burglars was recently arrested by police in Nashua, New Hampshire, after it was discovered that the three men were using the popular social networking site Facebook to help plan their crimes, according to New England Cable News.
Police told the regional news network that the group targeted individuals who posted their locations on their Facebook profiles, waiting until they were not at home to burglarize vulnerable houses. NECN also says that the police have recovered a $100,000 in stolen property since the arrest of the suspects.
Facebook told NECN that it had been in contact with Nashua police, and that a friend's post had alerted the thieves to the pending absence of one alleged victim.
The threat posed by such location-enabled services is not a new one. Earlier this year, a website dedicated to highlighting the issues posed by the careless use of such apps - called "pleaserobme.com" - went live, displaying the huge numbers of social network users who were inadvertently broadcasting their vulnerability to the world at large.
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