Facebook has filed a lawsuit against a Canadian porn company alleging that they attempted to hack Facebook’s servers.
Istra Holdings Inc trading as Slickcash is alleged to have tried to access Facebook’s servers at least 200,000 times in an attempt to access the personal information of Facebook users.
Facebook users though have nothing to fear, as according to court documents “These requests for information from Facebook generated error messages and were detected as unauthorized attempts to access and harvest proprietary information.”
According to the Toronto Star, Facebook was granted a court order forcing Rogers Communications and Look Communications to divulge subscriber information relating to the requests, which then led back to Slickcash.
Facebook has not asked for a specific figure, instead stating in the suit only that they have suffered damages in excess of $5,000 and that the “extent and amount of such injury and damage will be demonstrated at trial.”
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How many times has facebook been hacked? Is it easy?
Please give directions as to how to hack facebook. FYI only.
sincerely,
angela hayden
art goddess
That’s nice facebook….
And oh, thanks for the bubble.
200,000 times! Thats a lot of attempts.
200K times isn’t really many attempts, this is an automated process and this can easily be done in just one day. Why they didn’t do like all the other spammers and send #randomalphanumeric#@hotmail or yahoo is beyond me.
Jon
FACEBOOK THAT IS SUPER BRAVO move!!!! Very smart move…
Facebook is making good money for cracking porn websites.
Come on guys, really, if someone at facebook sneezes, the tech blogs are going to pick it up the story.
Please give us something more interesting on a Sunday evening.
Dumb story. Who really cares?????
The porn people have some of the best programmers in the world! I’m surprised they were caught!
fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
Umm…this sounds more like a bot trying to harvest data from facebook…
Pornsters slam your site to harvest data = lawsuit
GoogleBot slams your site to harvest data = Yay! Im a leet SEO!
200,000 times is really too much, they should face legal suit.
What the court documents do not mention is that Facebook has also given SlickCash an option to settle by giving the Facebook management team free accounts for life. Strictly for market research purposes, of course.
- Fake Mark Zuckerberg
http://www.fakezuck.com
What exactly where they trying to get? Well actually I figure I know, the “Sexual Orientation” and “Gender” details combined with their e-mail addy so they can spam you with relevant porn!
Quite a service!
Looks like Facebook is trying to give the appearance of caring about their users privacy. $5,000.00 in damages is a pretty small deal to make such a big stink about for a company with as much capital as Facebook.
yeah microsoft will sue you for trying to hack