Hackers Distributing 100 Million Facebook Users Data
A hacker recently proved how easy it is collecting personal data more people through Facebook.
As quoted from the BBC website, a computer security expert named Ron Bowes, recently managed to collect the personal data of hundreds of million users of Facebook, which opened to the public.
Bowes managed to collect personal data including Facebook user name, address, and phone number of the 100 million users of Facebook or about a fifth of all Facebook users worldwide.
The list was compiled Bowes is the data that is not hidden by Facebook users. However, the list is uploaded d of Pirate Bay, web sites are sharing files in the world, thus spreading very fast.
Until now, there are already more than 1000 users who have downloaded a list that Facebook users’ personal information. However, Facebook seems to not really bother with the steps taken by Bowes.
“Every person using Facebook has her own personal information and have the right to broadcast what they want, to whom they broadcast, and when do they broadcast,” said Facebook told the BBC.
“In this case information which has been approved for publication, compiled by a security expert (Ron Bowes-red) and the data were also there at Google, Bing, or other search engines, including also d Facebook,” Facebook adds.
So, according to Facebook, the data shown on the list are data that are freely accessible on the Internet. “No personal data is broken into from Facebook.”
However, what deserves attention is that when Facebook users whose personal data is revealed, did not realize, because it did not understand how to set privacy restrictions on Facebook.
Moreover, what is being done by Ron Bowes time was also only a preliminary step.
“So far, I simply index the Facebook users can find. Next time I will also index the data of their friends,” said Bowes, quoted from TechCrunch.
If the plan comes true Bowes again who knows how many hundred million users of data to be exposed in public.
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