A hacker created the Facebook torrent that is available to any person who wants files from Facebook data. 171 million Facebook users had their details stolen by a web sprawling code made by Ron Bowes. This torrent file is about 2.8 GB and is accessible to everyone online. Facebook made their remark on the issue saying all the details is what could be found with a search engine and doesn’t matter all that much. Numerous feel like this is just another example of how easy it is to hack Facebook with all of of the privacy issues they’ve been having lately. Article resource – Facebook torrent hack makes free download of personal user data by Personal Money Store.
Stealing info from 171 million Facebook users
Profile URLs, names, and user IDs of 171 million Facebook users are now being displayed for any person who wants to get the info. Pirate Bay is where Bowes, who heads Skull Security, has decided to place this torrent for the world, reports the Daily Tech. 13,000 downloads were active July 28, early in the morning. Details Facebook users didn’t hide with privacy setting is shown here. Anyone who worked out their privacy settings to say only friends could see their information aren’t in this torrent that Bowes created.
Privacy a problem for Facebook
The Facebook torrent emerges after multiple changes have been made to Facebook privacy settings to make user data more accessible for commercial use. The information that Facebook users “agreed to make public” are the things gathered up by researches to make this privacy change, reports BBC News quoting Facebook. Tech Crunch suggests that users choose soon to change their privacy settings to “friends only.” Letting “Everyone” see your Facebook info consists of a hacker who can grab your personal data, package it and sell it to the highest bidder.
Personal data on Facebook torrent can never be deleted
The Facebook torrent details is available to anyone who uses the search engines Google, Bing or Facebooksearch. The Facebook torrent contains a simple snapshot in one moment in time of Facebook that will last forever, reports Future. The details can never go away, even when users delete their accounts or change their privacy settings.
Facebook torrent and what it targets
Bowes decided to contain within the torrent the programs used to get all the info to steal from one fifth of Facebook users. Tech Crunch explains that Bowes wants more than just searchable users and intends to get the rest. Until Facebook switches to friends only by default, which is unlikely, users opt out-
Go to Account and Privacy Settings and Applications, Games, and Sites (link near the bottom, in a box) and Public Search and (Uncheck box).
Find more details on this subject
Daily Tech
dailytech.com/Info+on+100M+Facebook+Users+Harvested+and+Posted+in+Torrent++Legally/article19198.htm
Tech Crunch
techcrunch.com/2010/07/28/hacker-proves-facebooks-public-data-is-public/
Future of the Internet
futureoftheinternet.org/facebooks-ocean-of-names-becomes-a-torrent
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