WHID 2011-35: 'Dating site' takes pictures and names of 250,000 unsuspecting Facebook users Entry Title: WHID 2011-35: 'Dating site' takes pictures and names of 250,000 unsuspecting Facebook users WHID ID: 2011-35 Date Occurred: February 4, 2011 Attack Method: Process Automation Application Weakness: Insufficient Anti-automation Outcome: Disinformation Attacked Entity Field: Web 2.0 Attacked Entity Geography: USA Incident Description: Creators of a fake dating site have taken personal information from 250,000 Facebook profiles - and reproduced it without the knowledge of the members of the popular social networking site. However, bosses at Facebook have hit out at the misuse of the information held on their site and said they will 'take appropriate action'. 'Scraping people¹s information violates our terms. We have taken, and will continue to take, aggressive legal action against organisations that violate these terms,' Facebook¹s director of policy communications, Barry Schnitt, told Wired.com. Mass Attack: No Reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353643/Facebook-profiles-hacked-Dat ing-site-lifts-250-000-pictures-names.html Attack Source Geography: Attacked System Technology: Facebook