Subscribe RSS FeedThe privacy of millions of Facebook users has been jeopardised after some of their details were harvested and published on the internet. An online security consultant who wished to highlight the social networking site’s privacy issues published a list of data taken from more than 100million users’ profiles.
Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.
The list has been shared as a downloadable file which has now spread rapidly across the internet, prompting anger and concern from millions of users around the world.
The file has now spread rapidly across the net prompting anger and concern from millions of users all over the world.
On Pirate Bay, the world’s biggest file-sharing website, the list was being distributed and downloaded by more than 1,000 users, but it is believed it will be acessed by thousands more in a matter of days. (more…)
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