Facebook Inc. named a Canadian pornographic website operator in a law-suit alleging that the firm illegally hacked into the social web-sites servers.

The suit, originally filed in federal court in San Jose, California in June, was updated on Dec. 12, naming Slickcash.com and two Toronto men, Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, as defendants.

Facebook claims that that during Jun 1 and Jun 15 the operators sent over 200,000 requests its servers trying to harvest user information using an automated script that attempted to harvest information from other Facebook users.

These requests for information from Facebook generated error messages, and were detected as unauthorized attempts to access and harvest proprietary information belonging to Facebook, the company's lawyer, David Chiappetta, said in the complaint.

Look Communications Inc., an Internet service provider, turned over the Internet Protocol addresses for two computers, allowing Facebook to trace the information requests to the defendants, the complaint said. The service provider initially refused to divulge the information without a court-order.

Facebook, the world's second largest social networking site behind News Corp's Myspace, is seeking unspecified financial damages.

In a related story, the Pew Internet & American Life Project on Monday released a survey that finds most U.S. adults online to be relatively unconcerned about the accessibility of their personal information online.

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