Hackers Attack Facebook

Hackers have launched an attack on Facebook's 200-million users, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.

Hackers launched what is known as a phishing attack to break into accounts of some Facebook members, sending emails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites.

Facebook spokesperson, Barry Schnitt says the site is in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack. Schnitt says that Facebook's security team believes the hackers intend to collect a large number of credentials, then use those accounts at a later time to send spam hawking fake pharmaceuticals and other goods to Facebook members.

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