100 million Facebook users data have been leaked on an internet.
The file contains user account names and URL for each user’s profile page, from which anyone can easily access the user’s details such as address, date of birth, phone number or email address. Once a user’s profile is access, it is also possible to access the details of their friends even if they have made themselves non-searchable.
The directory of the personal details of users, a massive 2.8 GB torrent compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, is reported to have surfaced on an internet file-sharing site.
Ron Bowes reported used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, and collected data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.
Mr Bowes siad he did it to highlight privacy issues, to which Facebook replied that the details in question was already public information.
Isn’t it terrifying???
Are you on the list??
You can check whether you name is in the list or not by going through this link.
If you are in the list, you might be wondering how your name got there.
If your name is there then, the ‘Public Search’ in your privacy settings must be checked. You just need to uncheck the option to hide yourself from public searches.
I would like to repeat what Jame Nixon wrote on Thinq, “There’s absolutely nothing illegal about what Bowes has done – the information is, after all, publicly available – but perhaps the existence of a stalker’s online black book might finally persuade less security-minded Facebook users to get their arses in gear,”
If you are on the list, then i would like to remind you that the information was there all along, right from the time you made you Facebook account.
Just make sure to protect yourself in future.
Check out the Facebook Help section to more about privacy settings and how to do it.
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