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Updated: 170 Million Facebook accounts uploaded to Torrents

Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
http://failbook.com/2010/07/28/funny-facebook-fails-fbnews-you-been-scammed/

Bam! Looks like I deleted my account just in the nick of time.

Edit - Changed title to more accurately reflect what happened. The end result is the same, however, people's personal information is now even more public than it was before, more open to those with malicious intent. And the majority of those people are probably not even aware that their settings were open and that their data is public.

Edit 2 -http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/29/technology/Facebook_profiles_leaked/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin

But Bowes doesn't seem concerned. He's already planning the next phase of his Facebook data dive. Bandwidth constraints stopped him from gathering users' public photos and other openly available details, this time around.

"So far, I have only indexed the searchable users, not their friends," he wrote in his blog. "I'd like to tackle that in the future, though, so if anybody has any bandwidth they'd like to donate, all I need is an ssh account and Nmap installed."
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Am I the only one who's 'nervous' about this? You have 170 million, more than 1/5th of Facebook's 500M users with their privacy settings wide open, most of them probably completely unaware of the situation. The combination of an individual's reckless disregard for their own privacy and an unscrupulous individual is a recipe for a disaster. Next week's headline: 100 Million Facebook users identities stolen.
 
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shortylickens said:
Fudge 'em.
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Thought about re-opening my account, using a Google Voice number for my phone number, with all calls and texts to it File 13'd. Easy enough to create a designated FB address with any number of free services to dump crap in.

Aflac said:
by stolen you mean phished?
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Sadly, more than 100 million people are too stupid, lazy, ignorant, or simply have a cavalier approach to their own privacy. Catch is, its not just their privacy they're screwing with. Its everyone on their friends list, and their friend's list, and so on.
 
DaWhim said:
wtf? it wasn't stolen.

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-torrent-site/

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.
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My account is fine.

If you check the link in the article (http://www.facebook.com/directory), you can see who is listed in the directory (and thus didn't lock down their security settings). I'm not listed there.
 
deleted your account? I didn't think that was possible. The most I've been able to do is de-activate it.
 
coreyb said:
deleted your account? I didn't think that was possible. The most I've been able to do is de-activate it.
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This is what got the Canadian government so upset. I think they do have to erase everything now if you do hit delete. Don't quote me on that though.
 
Bateluer said:
Sadly, more than 100 million people are too stupid, lazy, ignorant, or simply have a cavalier approach to their own privacy. Catch is, its not just their privacy they're screwing with. Its everyone on their friends list, and their friend's list, and so on.
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My name is not private information. You can find it on all kinds of public records.

Being able to relate my name to some other information could be useful, but you're not going to be able to do that with what is publicly available on Facebook.

Also, fix your thread title, it makes you look clueless and illiterate.
 
Oh darn, people can see that I have a facebook account. Too bad I have it so that only friends can view anything besides my name/profile picture. And I don't have questionable information on there anyway.
 
coreyb said:
deleted your account? I didn't think that was possible. The most I've been able to do is de-activate it.
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No, you actually can delete your profile on there. But for obvious reasons Facebook makes it about 10 times more complicated than it needs to be. Enough so to where I'm sure 95% of people who want to delete their profile just end up de-activating it instead, which leaves all your info intact. Hell even de-activating mine caused problems because I didn't select why, so I check "other" it still wouldn't let me until I typed in a reason. I've never seen a site in my life that's so difficult to get fucking rid of.
 
Bateluer said:
Edit - Changed title to more accurately reflect what happened. The end result is the same, however, people's personal information is now even more public than it was before, more open to those with malicious intent. And the majority of those people are probably not even aware that their settings were open and that their data is public.
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Title is still inaccurate. Public information is now public. OH NO
 
I found my name there. I thought I had set my info to private but apparently I missed something. However, I don't have any info up on my page so all that shows up is my picture and a list of friends. I need to go look at my privacy settings again.
 
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You've always been able to delete. It used to work that you'd delete it, but if you logged in during the next 14 days, it would reactivate the acct. Otherwise, 2 weeks later it was gone.

I deleted mine months ago. Of course, my account was an empty shell that I'd logged into all of twice. Even if they got anything, I don't particularly care. It'd be my spam email address and nothing else.
 
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