The pornographic pictures sent as feeds to friends and family after hacking of number of accounts on facebook.
Over 2 lakh victims of this hacking are in Bangalore. According to a news report, some two lakh Facebook users in Bangalore had their accounts hacked and weblinks to their morphed pornographic pictures sent as feeds to friends and family. Users were tricked into pasting malware into their browsers, which in turn resulted in the sharing of offensive content, Facebook said.
The cybercrime department too is reported to have received calls and complaints regarding the mass hacking.
According to the report, there are around 50 posts on Facebook stating that the users are quitting the social networking site forever after being embarrassed before friends and family.
“Protecting the people who use Facebook from spam and malicious content is a top priority for us,” Palo Alto, California-based Facebook said in a statement.
