Facebook wants Canadian ‘hacker’ names
p2pnet news | Security:- Facebook is after Canadian ‘John Doe’ hackers it says “may have stolen personal information” from members.
And it wants ISPs Rogers Communications Inc. and Look Communications to hand over details.
“Court documents allege the hackers may have swiped personal information about Facebook members, including user names, passwords and e-mail addresses,” says the Financial Post, going on:
“It is not clear how many Facebook customers were affected or where the hackers live.”
Rogers and Look both turned down Facebook’s demand saying they’d only make the data available if a court ordered them to do so.
Now, that’s what Facebook wants.
“All other methods of obtaining the evidence and documents have been exhausted,” Facebook said in its application, quoted in the story.
“The evidence and documentation of [Rogers and Look] is required so that justice may be done between the parties in the [U.S.] action.”
The alleged incidents occurred between June 1 and June 15, “with the hackers improperly gaining access to Facebook’s private data system more than 200,000 times during that period, the lawsuit says,” states the Financial Post, adding:
“These requests generated error messages, and were detected as unauthorized attempts to access and harvest proprietary information belonging to Facebook,” the suit says.
Also See:
Financial Post - Court urged to force Rogers, Look to release customer data, October 25, 2007
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October 26th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I don’t think these “hackers” would be stupid enough to attack Fadbook from their home addresses. An IP address alone proves sweet fuckall.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I live in a condo building and there are at least a dozen unsecured routers that I could access to. Do I? Nope Im wired except for my pocket pc.
So yeah ip address doesnt mean that was the person that commited the offence.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I hope facebook take legal action on this matters. The hacked all my information, my password, personal message. Is inveasion of privacy. I a hope this problem get resolve for all the stupid and losers hackers who have nothing to do.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Why doesn’t facebook do more to improve their security? If they were truly hacked over 200,000 times you would think they would have corrected the glitch after the first 200 times. these people are not hackers their crackers. CRACKERS: DAMAGAGE SYSTEMS AND HARM PEOPLE AND DESTROY THINGS. HACKERS CREATE THINGS AND NEWER BETTER WAYS OF DOING THEM. Hackers even created the internet and much of the software applications and even more user freindly hardware. Face book should use this as a challenge to improve the system they operate to plug the leaks.
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Facebook is already facing a lawsuit “Facebook made basic error with poor user safeguards, says lawyer” Facebook has agreed to add safeguards to protect children from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment after New York prosecutors threatened the social networking site with fraud charges for failing to live up to its own safety claims. (http://www.out-law.com/page-8563)
So being hacked does not surprise me… myspace, facebook…. and the rest are all vulnerable to attack. They are all shouting about protection… Cristina says “I hope facebook take legal action on this matters. The hacked all my information, my password, personal message. Is inveasion of privacy. I a hope this problem get resolve for all the stupid and losers hackers who have nothing to do.” And this just shows that individuals do not have protection in Cyberspace.
The various proponents of portending to be fighting cyber-crime, are not working together…. cyber-crime is not being treated as main stream crime. And even if roger and look gave up the relevant information there is nothing to say that prosecutions witll take place.
Until people start to unite, that is ISPs, USERS, The Police, FBI, Interpol and all the other various bodies, and work together from a legislative point of view, right down to the a users point of view… then this problem will continue to grow… not just with Facebook but any online presence.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
“I hope facebook take legal action on this matters. The hacked all my information, my password, personal message. Is inveasion of privacy. I a hope this problem get resolve for all the stupid and losers hackers who have nothing to do.”
Facebook (or any social networking site) *is* an invasion of privacy. I don’t trust them worth a damn. Maybe this is what you get for being careless with your information and trusting some company and website (Facebook) with it all.
It’s likely that they are profiting off of your personal information themselves. This is the internet. Get real.