When the news of epidemic Facebook account hijacking broke, Anonymous first came to mind. The unpermitted posting of grotesque porn and violent photos have surprised countless of users from around the globe and prompted rage. Victims woke up one day, they are already a fan or has “Liked” pages with the most unpleasant things in the planet. For a moment, users doubted the measures employed to protect them from such malicious activities. With the hope to halt the menaces, hunting season starts as Facebook’s team has identified the culprits of this coordinated spam attack that took advantage of browser susceptibility.

A spokesperson from Facebook shares the social network’s serious pursuit to punish the intruders saying, “In addition to the engineering teams that build tools to block spam we also have a dedicated enforcement team that has already identified those responsible and is working with our legal team to ensure appropriate consequences follow. He refused to disclose their identities or to discuss what exactly the social networking giant has in store for the individuals.”

To guard their territory, Facebook enforces mechanisms to counter possible assaults: “We have also been putting those affected through educational checkpoints so they know how to protect themselves. We’ve put in place backend measures to reduce the rate of these attacks and will continue to iterate on our defenses to find new ways to protect people.”

In October, a confident Facebook proposed a solution to strengthen its security walls by means of encryption. This was after a relatively successful tracking of one of the world’s notorious hackers and dubbed as “Spam King”, Sanford Wallace. This guy has worked his way to send over 27 million of spam messages from 2008 to 2009. Less than a month ago, users’ timelines were flooded with distasteful sorts.  This one can prove to be damaging for Zuckerberg’s company as they battle it out with Google+ for data security.