A botnet that 4 security researchers built was recently used to infiltrate Facebook to show how easy it was for exploiting social-networking websites. PCWorld.com published this on November 2, 2011.
Reportedly, the experiment had the researchers from the University of British Columbia use a huge 102 fake friends on Facebook to demonstrate how it was possible to dig out personal information related to users that otherwise weren't openly shared on the website and the insufficiency of its protective measures for tackling an enormous size of infiltration.
The researchers, who carried out the scheme for 8 weeks, garnered 250GB of data from numerous members of the social network and over 3,000 members befriended the "sockpuppet" bots; as a result, the network accessed over 1m profiles.
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