Hackers Launch Phishing Attack on Facebook Users

Posted on May 21, 2009
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By Jim Finkle

BOSTON (Reuters) – Hackers launched an attack on ’s 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.

spokesman Barry Schnitt said on Thursday that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack.

The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites.

Those sites were designed to look like the home page. The victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords.

The purpose of such attacks is generally identify theft and to spread spam.

The fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im. has deleted all references to those domains.

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    July 9th, 2009 at 8:39 am

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