Facebook Seeks Legal Justice against Porn Company Hacking into its Servers

Slickcash, a Canada-based company dedicated to Internet porn, is accused of trying to hack Facebook's servers as many as 200,000 times intending to access Facebook's users' accounts and capture their personal information. This activity was going on for 14 days in June 2007.

The users of Facebook, however, need not to be scared because according to the documents in court, each of the requests for user's personal information redirected Facebook's PCs to the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the company. The requests for Facebook information that produced error messages were recognized as unauthorized efforts to access proprietary information.

Still, security experts are warning people not to post too much personal information on the sites for social networking, for fraudsters on the Internet could collect and abuse them.

It wasn't quite evident from the court documents exactly what information the fraudsters accessed, but someone intentionally and without taking permission captured, copied, or used data that Facebook's computer network and proprietary computers held.

Facebook, which has above 34 Million users around the world, lets members to put up their photos along with personal information such as date of birth, hometown, phone number, e-mail address and workplace.

The allegations in the complaint still haven't been legally proved. Slickcash did not immediately reply to calls while it was still unclear if the accused sought legal defense.

The website of Slickcash brags that its associates have been engaged with every aspect of the 'adult industry' on the Internet since 1999. Names like Ming Wu and those of six more defendants have been included in the suit, although their identities have not yet been disclosed.

The modified complaint was lodged on December 12, 2007 after court granting an order on Facebook compelling Look Communications and Rogers Communications to give out subscriber details linked to the aforementioned requests, which then redirected to Slickcash. Although the court asked both the companies to provide the information, they refused, the suit noted.

Without mentioning a specific amount, Facebook stated that it had incurred damages of more than $5,000 and that it would demonstrate the amount and extent of the damage during trial.

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» SPAMfighter News - 1/2/2008