Over the weekend WWE.com launched the WWE Fan Nation, a social networking site. The network lets people create personal profiles to communicate with other WWE fans. So far, the network has garnered over 7,000 registered users. You can check out WWE’s answer to MySpace and Facebook at http://Fans.WWE.com. However, on Saturday night/Sunday morning, the site was infiltrated by a few vicious users looking to wreak havoc on WWE’s social networking site. The website was closed on Sunday to clean out all the “graffiti” (including pornographic images) left by the attackers.
According to the website of RTE — Ireland’s National Television and Radio Broadcaster — police managed to track down and arrest one of the attackers, a man from Dublin, Ireland. In accordance with the Communications Regulation Act from 2002, the Dublin man has been detained by police. So far he is the only person to be charged, although WWE is looking to take action against the others involved in the attack.
A number of people were involved in the cyber attack, but so far, only one person has been charged. However, WWE’s in the process of tracking down the other cyber attackers and forwarding their information to law enforcement agencies.
