Sounds incredibly, but Interpol’s head suffered identity theft on Facebook

Interpol chief’s Ronald K. Noble appeared to be as vulnerable to identity theft as anyone else. 

At last week's inaugural Interpol Information Security Conference in Hong Kong, secretary general Noble unveiled that criminals had set up two accounts impersonating him on the networking site during this summer's high-profile global dragnet, 'Operation Infra-Red'.

The fraud was discovered only recently by Interpol's Security Incident Response Team.

Operation Infra-Red, which took place between May and July of this year, was a global, Interpol-led operation to crack down on named criminal fugitives accused of murder, paedophilia, fraud, corruption, drug trafficking and money laundering, who had fled national jurisdictions. The operation led to 130 arrests.

Noble is not believed to have had a professional profile on Facebook, while his organization has.

Actually, despite Facebook itself wasn't compromised in any way, the example cited by Nobel hinges on the ease with which the criminals were able to steal his identity without challenge.