The personal details of more than 100 million Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net.
Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a simple piece of code to collect the data from Facebook. He said he published the data to highlight privacy issues, but Facebook said it was already available.
The list, which has been shared as a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user’s profile, their name and unique ID and has spread rapidly across the net. On the Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users. One user, going by the name of lusifer69, described the list as “awesome and a little terrifying”
NB- it doesn’t give away any personal details, though.
Ron Bowles blog
Ron’s Facebook Data Torrent
BBC report
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