article_snippet: an attack coordinated via social media originated in Russia where over 2,700 applications were made to an elitist internet dating site in a few hours.
article_snippet: Similar coordinated attacks have come from the United States and the United Kingdom with 1,435 U.S. 'trolls' removed from the site and 400 from the UK in the past few days.
article_snippet: 2,700 of the recent surge in fake profiles were from Russia, where the revenge campaign began .
article_snippet: Initially the scale of applications from specific geographical areas – Russia, the United States and the UK in particular – caused concern, when we examined the applications in more detail, we noticed a large number of what appeared to be fake profile pictures. '
article_snippet: We then traced this back to various social media sites calling for an attack on We site.'
article_snippet: BeautifulPeople.com has been hit with 'denial of service' attacks, and had service' attacks rating system sabotaged in 2011.
article_snippet: Thankfully, through swift action by our administrators, vigilant members and the introduction of an extra level of verification has meant that our have been able to root out the attackers and ensure that our remains beautiful and exclusive.'