Facebook gets hit with a hardcore image hack

USERS OF THE CIA'S PEOPLE DATABASE Facebook have been hit with a number of inappropriate and offensive images that they did not request.

Reports suggest that the images have appeared in users' news feeds without their permission and are rather foul in subject - some even include Justin Beiber.

"It isn't presently clear precisely how the offending content has been spread - whether users are falling for a clickjacking scheme, are being tagged in content without their knowledge, have poorly chosen privacy settings, have been tricked into installing malicious code, or have fallen victim to another vulnerability inside Facebook itself," wrote Sophos security expert Graham Cluley,

"What's clear, however, is that mischief-makers are upsetting many Facebook users and making the social networking site far from a family-friendly place."

The hacked feeds come at a time when Anonymous is discussing the Fawkes virus and its ability to wreak havoc on Facebook with very little effort. However, Cluley did not automatically make this leap and only said that a link had been suggested.

"We haven't seen any evidence linking the Facebook nastiness to Fawkes/Anonymous," he said in a tweet.

Anonymous did have rather a Facebook flavoured day yesterday and via one of its Twitter feeds posted a Dox, or rather a list of personal information, about Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

"#d0x of Mark #Zuckerberg by @mum8l3z He has every #Facebook users info why shouldn't we all have some of his!!," says a message tweeted out by the @Anon_Central account that links to a pretty comprehensive wiki on the Facebook CEO.

An apparently new denial of service attack tool aimed at Facebook was also released yesterday and appeared as a post on the Anonymous Central Tumblr account.

We've asked Facebook for a response and will update when we get it. µ