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100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-pokes dept.

Stoobalou writes "A directory containing personal details about more than 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on an Internet file-sharing site. The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook's open access directory, which lists all users who haven't bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines."

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  1. Re:Well by Gi0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. This torrent contains: * The URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile * The name of every searchable Facebook user, both unique and by count (perfect for post-processing, datamining, etc) * Processed lists, including first names with count, last names with count, potential usernames with count, etc * The programs I used to generate everything

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  2. No, It's Just a List by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you go to the originator, here's all it contains:

    This torrent contains:

    * The URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile
    * The name of every searchable Facebook user, both unique and by count (perfect for post-processing, datamining, etc)
    * Processed lists, including first names with count, last names with count, potential usernames with count, etc
    * The programs I used to generate everything

    You're going to get a URL to pages. If the user has since made them inaccessible, you'll only get what you can from their public profile. Like, you cannot get to my friends list from my public profile. You'll get "potential" usernames to log into Facebook. Big deal. Remember when everyone could make a username for Facebook and that was also their profile URL? Well, now you can guess the most common names and add them to this list like david. Then you could use ncrack or whatever.

    Not a whole lot in this file. Not like he scraped the pages of data and put that in a csv file for research or anything really interesting.

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  3. Re:FTFA by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Informative

    More likely it will precipitate a lawsuit. Why fix the problem when you can sue the pants off someone instead?

    Sue for what? Violating Facebook's ToS?

    I'm surprised TFA didn't link to the guy's blog. He has a good writeup there
    http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887

    The Torrent: http://www.skullsecurity.org/blogdata/fbdata.torrent

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  4. Sensational...ism by RobM9999 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sensationalism - A manner of over-hyping events, being deliberately controversial, loud, self centred or acting to obtain attention. It is also a form of theatre.

    Yep, that's pretty much it.

    Just because he found the super-secret directory, http://www.facebook.com/directory/ and wrote a program that would read it. Of all the evil, nefarious things to do.