It seems that a Toronto-based online porno company decided that Facebook's user base would make good customers for their sites. How did the plan to convert these social networking fans in to their clients? Why, by hacking their information of course.
In court papers filed in San Jose, CA, Facebook claims that over a two week period last June, there were over 200,000 attempts by people associated with SlickCash to access the sites proprietary information. After the first IP address was detected, then blocked, the hackers then switched up to using multiple IPs, but continued with the same style of attacks. Both Rogers Communications and Look Communications have been given court orders to reveal their subscriber information for the accounts in question, a common practice to maintain privacy for subscribers of any ISP.
While it is not made clear exactly what type of information they were trying to access, Facebook is claiming $5,000 in damages and irreparable harm to the company.