The best part of the article is the irony of Facebook's statement: "Facebook is vigilant about protecting our users from those who would try to expose any form

The best part of the article is the irony of Facebook's statement: "Facebook is vigilant about protecting our users from those who would try to expose any form of user information. In this case, it appears someone has attempted to scrape information from our site,". I read this as "We don't want anyone to potentially profit from the data we're profiting from ... let's squash the competition!"