100 million facebook profile pages leaked

[TeenCat]

A 2.8GB torrent is floating around out there containing data from 100 million Facebook profiles. But don't freak out: all the data was already available publicly.

http://gizmodo.com/5598825/100-milli...o-torrent-site

enjoy your fun everyone! ... and dont forget to register on twitter also, security and privacy at its best!

[punkpred]

These are profiles not set to private so its just a big downloadable list of profiles already available to anyone.

[TeenCat]

These are profiles not set to private so its just a big downloadable list of profiles already available to anyone.

yes man, but now at one place, available to all spammers and everyone who knows what to do with it ... nothing better than one place filled with millions of infos ... facebook and twitter ftw!

[rowan]

Yeah... it's not really a leak, the info was already available, but actually collecting that amount of data would present a challenge to most people. Now, all they have to do is download a torrent.

[CamTraffic]

"A 2.8GB torrent is floating around out there containing data from 100 million Facebook profiles. But don't freak out: all the data was already available publicly."

[rowan]

Until recently links from FB carried the true referer, so if the person clicking happened to be on a page that had a profile number on it you could do funny stuff like look up their name via the API...

Imagine how well that would go down? "Hey, <actual_real_name>, does your wife know you're surfing porn? Click here to clean the evidence."