Facebook says it is looking into reports that pornographic and violent images have been pasted to its website.
The pictures are shown up in users' newsfeeds.
According to the technology site, ZDnet, the material is being posted via a "linkspam virus" which tempts members to click on a seemingly innocuous story link.
Officials of Facebook said: "we know of these reports and investigation is in process about this issue".
Lot of site members have passed comments about the breach on Twitter.
One user wrote that "Discovered a new porn site, it's called Facebook,".
Another user wrote "Facebook will protect about the photoshopped porn images, it's offensive,".
Other users complained they had seen pictures of mutilated animals and people, in some cases adding that they had deactivated their accounts as a consequence.
Many people are linking the attack to the Anonymous hacktivist group after a video displayed on YouTube threatening to "kill" the social network.
However, experts have questioned whether the video was authentic.
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