Thinq is reporting that Hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security has leaked a 2.8Gb torrent file containing the Facebook account details of approximately 100 million users, this makes it about 1 in 5 of the total user-base for the website.
The file contains details of all users who haven’t changed their privacy settings from “open to everyone” after the recent changes Facebook has been going through.
His directory contains 171 million entries relating to more than 100 million people and lists their account names, details such as addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers. The profiles linked will also allow you to see their friends, even those who have made themselves non-searchable.
Because all of this information was readily available on the internet what’s been done isn’t illegal, but it does seriously call into question Facebook’s apparently cavalier attitude towards their users’ privacy.
Facebook haven’t yet commented on the leak.
