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Researcher 'leaks' 100 million Facebook IDs

2010-07-29 11:30 by
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Shock, horror: loads of publicly-available data has been, er, leaked to the public on BitTorrent.

At first sight, the details look alarming. Canadian security expert Ron Bowes used crawler software to search for information on Facebook users, and then released what he found.

It includes names, unique IDs and URLs for the the profiles of every user who hasn't checked the box saying "Don't allow search engines to find me".

In other words, it allows people to find the home pages of around 100 million Facebook users.

Bowes says his original intention was to search for the most widespread combinations of first names and surnames, as these could be easily used for hacking attacks.

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