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Facebook Suing Canadian Porn Site

A Canadian Press article by Gregory Bonnell, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking websites computers and tried to access the personal information of users, court documents show.

A numbered Ontario company, which does business online under the name SlickCash, along with several people in the Toronto area, are named in an amended complaint filed by Facebook in San Jose, Calif.

The hugely popular information sharing website alleges that, for two weeks last June, the defendants attempted to access Facebook's servers at least 200,000 times.

posted by Fergie @ 12/16/2007 11:03:00 AM