Facebook Shuts Down Spam Attack

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Officials there say they put a stop to most of the spam that sparked a flood of violent and pornographic images on its site.

Uses -- reported seeing pictures of -- reality hardcore porn and self mutilation pop up on their pages.

Some experts are calling it the worst security breach ever on FaceBook Trace Gallagher and -- West Coast news how this happened.

Well apparently -- hackers entice the users -- two free products like clicking on them as well as deep discounts.

And in those offers they had these malicious codes and if you click on every dragon into your browser.

Then they can use those codes to access your profile once they're inside your profile they can change or add pretty much whatever they want.

They can also send phony messages to your friends and trick then into revealing their private information.

This -- lasted for the better part of three -- ship well aside from that a lot of privacy concerns when it comes to FaceBook but it sounds like they're close to a deal with the feds.

Yes yes because face -- is accused of misusing and miss leaning your private information now under this agreement they would have to get users' consent before they go out and share any of your private information but -- hacking.

Brings up brand new privacy concerns simply because users put so much of their private information online that they may feel vulnerable listen.

I saw a lot of -- posts on Twitter actually.

From stunned FaceBook users who felt like they've been pumped you know.

FaceBook is their trusted friend that they visit many times -- -- and if your trusted friend somebody reaches out and slaps you across the face.

You don't talk to them for a little while.

And now FaceBook is vowing -- to tighten security without compromising.

Creativity -- Trace Gallagher in Los Angeles Trace thanks.

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