Hacking News

Shocking: Child Torture Photos Hit Facebook!

Yet another hijack report concerning Facebook

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

28th of March 2008, 10:02 GMT

Adjust text size:

Although it wasn't confirmed yet, some reports disclosed that several Facebook accounts got hacked and shocking pictures of child torture were sent to all the users visiting the profiles. Paperghost of Vitalsecurity.org informs that at least two accounts were hijacked a few days ago, but no Facebook official replied yet.

"So far, I have one definite confirm on at least two

accounts that were taken over (most likely by the same individual), one of which had the child torture pictures uploaded to it and the other - well, it wasn't child torture but it nearly cost someone their marriage," the mentioned source reported.

The interesting fact is that nobody from Facebook replied to this matter although it is quite an important problem since we're dealing with child torture. "This happened a few weeks ago, and Facebook apparently haven't replied to the person who raised it with them yet," Paperghost wrote in the article.

Since we're talking about Facebook, a social network website that has millions of users, this is a pretty important problem and maybe the website's representatives should come out and give us an explanation for what happened. At the time of signing a deal with Microsoft, Facebook's officials said that their website recorded approximately 200,000 new user registrations every day and imagine that many of these are teenagers who, let's be honest, should be protected of this kind of content.

Back in the past, we had several hijack reports confirmed on Facebook, a matter of fact which should make the social networking site's official think a little bit at the security measures of their product. Sure, it may be users' naivety because they usually disclose their login credentials through phishing websites or other malicious attempts, but the vulnerable members have to be protected somehow.

TAGS:

facebook | security | torture | hack

SEARCH THE NEWS ARCHIVE :

Today's News | Yesterday's News | News Archive

User opinions:

No user comments yet.

Be the first to express your opinion using the form below!

Share your opinion:

SUBMIT PROGRAM \| ADVERTISE \| GET HELP \| SEND US FEEDBACK \| RSS FEEDS \| ENTER NEWS SITE \| ENGLISH BOARD \| ROMANIAN FORUM
© 2001 - 2008 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Softpedia™ and the Softpedia™ logo are registered trademarks of SoftNews NET SRL.	Copyright Information \| Privacy Policy \| Terms of Use \| Update your software \| Archive

NEWS CATEGORIES: