Claim: The Facebook applications "My Birthday Calendar" and "Holiday Card List" harbor malicious information-stealing programs.
Example:[Collected on Facebook, December 2011]
SECURITY WARNING, URGENT!. People are starting to get requests allegedly linked to an application called "my calendar, birthday" & "Holiday Card List". I received several requests from friends connected to this program. ATTENTION!. "My calendar, birthday" & "Holiday Card List" is a malicious program designed to extract data from each of their profiles. is very aggressive, just one click to start sending requests to each of your friends/contacts. IF a REQUEST COMES FROM my part, PLEASE just disregard it. ATTENTION PLEASE COPY AND PASTE TO WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
Origins: This alert circulated on the Facebook social networking site in mid-December 2011 warned that the applications "My Birthday Calendar" and "Holiday Card List" were "malicious programs designed to extract data from [Facebook] profiles." We have not encountered any credible reports documenting that either of these applications harbors any malicious, information-stealing code.
