100 million Facebook pages leaked to a torrent site, creating the world's least exciting torrent

Hacker Ron Bowes from Skull Security has created a 2.8GB torrent file which contains the Facebook account details of roughly 100 million users. That's about 1 in 5 of the half billion accounts the social networking site has, and the torrent contains URLs for each account, with other personal details contained in the profiles such as phone numbers and email addresses. Bowes created a crawler to troll Facebook's open access directory, where all the information is kept. There's nothing illegal about any of this, of course -- we put our information out there into the public forum that Facebook is, after all -- but there's still something creepy about the idea of someone torrenting our profile. Then again, we have some pretty amazing shots from the Bronx Zoo in there, so we can't really blame them.

[Tech Dude Posted Jul 28th 2010 6:52PM]

Lets hope no creeper gets a hold of this. Guy that did this is probably some sick pedophile looking to lure teenage girls.

[cyberguruji Posted Jul 28th 2010 7:03PM]

damn!

[Ross McLean Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:02PM]

@DefPoet
I really need to stop using my real name on blogs

[bathellfire Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:18PM]

I think the word hacker is a bit too much.
Creating a crawler to steal everything from a specific URL will not require any "hacking" skills, just basic programming.

Hell, you can probably steal half of facebook jusy by using wget -R http://facebook.com command :)

[bathellfire Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:19PM]

@bathellfire -r (not -R) :)

[bathellfire Posted Jul 28th 2010 8:20PM]

@bathellfire My bad
-r, not -R (always try to use the capital one, because constantly operate with chmod and chown commands)

[PaTrond Posted Jul 28th 2010 9:30PM]

Finally something was done! I hate its security. I had my phone number only visible to a few selected friends before, but removed it later. Connected it to my phone now, though ..naively thinking it didn't take my number next to internet connection too. x (

Well, in fact, today people often use facebook to arrange parties and meetings with friends instead of paying for using the phone. I, like many other, also use it to easily connect and share pictures with family.

Really wish someone made a high quality facebook with better security.

[DoomLight Posted Jul 28th 2010 10:12PM]

who would download that?

[A25i Posted Jul 29th 2010 10:54AM]

@angelusp
Agreed, facebook = gay.