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Facebook awarded over $360 million damages against spammer
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoMoney? How about death penalty?
- JacobAldridge 16y agoAssuming they actually get some of that money, I look forward to it being distributed to the users who were impacted. And giving them Facebook Credits doesn't count.
- christophe971 16y agoUsually, it's the one suing who gets the money. The users didn't sue? Too bad for them.
- skinnymuch 16y agoWhile the headline isn't exactly wrong, it is highly misleading. "Porembski was alleged to have obtained the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users, and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends." "Some of the spam messages directed users to phishing websites that stole usernames and passwords" I assumed from the headline that the defendant made his/her own accounts and spammed people. What he did is much worse.
- BigThinker 16y agoI think that of course, a judgement is one thing. Facebook's chances of ever seeing much of that $360,500,000 is another thing entirely.
- angdis 16y agoWait a second... a spammer company even HAS $360M ???
- metachris 16y ago> A computer discovered by the Sacramento County Sherrif's Department, which was thought to belong to Philip Porembski, was found to contain more than 160,000 Facebook login credentials, as well as automated scripts to access Facebook and send messages. I wonder how they got login credentials from 160k users in the first place.
- biot 16y agoThe image in the article gives the clue: http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/porembski.jpg http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/porembski.jpg Probably an initial small-scale phishing attack from fake accounts, then as others fall victim, use their credentials to spam all their friends. Rinse and repeat.
- wladimir 16y agoI guess 160k logins could be pretty easily got from a botnet/worm/trojan that logs site login credentials.