Data for 100m Facebook accounts published to BitTorrentG
Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.
Google Search Engine Strikes Again! =|
Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/facebook_user_data_published/
Ron Bowles, who describes himself as a certified penetration tester, said he used some hastily written code to harvest the names of more than 100 million users who had set their accounts to be accessible to Google and other search engines. The list also includes the unique web address to each account, meaning the pages will be accessible even if the users later configure their accounts to be private.
At time of writing, this torrent indicated that almost 10,000 people had tried to download the file.
~WizZ
HackTalk Security Team
