Facebook Settles Hacking Suit Against Canadian Adult Site for $500k
Adult website operator SlickCash, sued by Facebook for attempting to hack Facebook’s servers and steal user information in 2007, has settled the suit with Facebook for $500,000, according to the Canadian Press. As part of the deal, SlickCash employees have agreed not to become members of Facebook for the next 10 years.
Facebook accused SlickCash of hitting the Facebook servers with hundreds of thousands of requests in a coordinated attempt to obtain the contact information of its millions users.
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