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Facebook sues Ontario porn company over alleged hacking

Posted by Emil Protalinski on 17 December 2007 - 22:12 · 11 comments & 5937 views

Facebook is suing a Toronto-based porn company and 17 people for allegedly trying to hack the social networking site for the personal information of its users. According to an amended statement of claim filed by Facebook in San Jose, Calif., Istra Holdings Inc. — which does business online under the name SlickCash — and the other defendants attempted to access its servers more than 200,000 times in June. SlickCash offers advertising commissions to web publishers for directing surfers to its collection of adult sites. "The defendants knowingly and without permission took, copied, or made use of, data from Facebook's proprietary computers and computer network," said the amended statement of claim, filed last Wednesday.

Facebook did not say what information was stolen. The company said the attacks caused it to incur costs of $5,000 US and that it intends to seek additional damages, saying its reputation had been "irreparably" harmed. The lawsuit also names Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, who work at Istra in Toronto, and Ming Wu of Markham, Ont. It also says there are 14 other defendants, but doesn't name them. It is unclear whether any have filed a statement of defence. None of the allegations have been proven in court. Facebook said the automated scripts used by the defendants to try and infiltrate the site resulted in error messages being generated. "Each of these requests sought to direct Facebook's computers to send information on other Facebook users back to [the company's internet protocol] address," the statement of claim said.

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(2 replies) #1 Posted by darkpuma on 17 Dec 2007 - 22:28: yay ontario made it on the neowin main page! oh wait....

#2 Posted by Tha Bloo Monkee on 17 Dec 2007 - 22:52: If we wanted porn, we would find it!

(2 replies) #3 Posted by zeta_immersion on 17 Dec 2007 - 23:06: Booya .. i'm in ontario ... way to go nerds ... see there you go, porn lovers doing something right ...
wait ... porn ... i must go people ... i am being called upon

#4 Posted by Rascally on 18 Dec 2007 - 01:16: hahahaha.

The company in question is pretty much one of the scummiest pr0n companies on the 'net. They used to be one of the biggest though...not to mention just about THE biggest pr0n spammer on the internet at the time (no kidding).

#5 Posted by +Anaron on 18 Dec 2007 - 01:22: Well, they deserve it if they were trying to hack Facebook for the personal information of other users.

(1 reply) #6 Posted by Croquant on 18 Dec 2007 - 02:34

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