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Over 100m Facebook profiles harvested, available in torrent
DrEvil:
Just as concerns over Facebook privacy started to fade out of the headlines, a hacker has rekindled the fire by making over 100 million profiles available in a single gift-wrapped download. Ron Bowes of Skull Security compiled the 2.8GB torrent (which is currently available on TPB) by creating a web crawler to harvest the data of users listed on Facebook's open access directory.
The package supposedly contains the profile URLs, names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers of 171 million members (around 100 million unique) – more than one in five of Facebook's half billion user base. Viewing an individual's profile gives access to their friends' pages too – even those who have made themselves non-searchable. The torrent also has the tools used to collect the data.
Since all the information is publicly available, Bowes hasn't violated any laws. This doesn't necessarily count as "failure" on Facebook's end either, but it underscores a question many have asked from initial privacy upheaval: should users be exposed by default regardless of opt-out features?
Source: TechSpot
Alpha:
Wow...
The Golden Girl =D:
O h My god .....And i thought facebook was the safest of all my accounts.
iA it won't be me .
$tyli$h Executive:
Genius guy. I wish to learn how to hack paypal and online banking sites this way.
Saladin:
To hack sites like that, you are going to need a very powerful computer, something that you cannot buy actually.
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