Personal Details From Facebook Made Downloadable
A hundred million people who facebook often, would have been surprised this morning to find that their personal details have been made downloadable on Pirate Bay.
This information was compiled by a single person, named Ron Bowles. Bowles, an online security consultant by profession, has made his point that privacy issues must be highlighted, by hacking Facebook with such The website, however, said that no private data was compromised, since only the information that users agreed to make public was taken.
What one would find interesting is the fact that the list has actually been downloaded already by more than a 1000 people.
Facebook, which got a record of 500 million users this June, should have been prepared for a security breach, no matter how big.
Although the data used was only public, the heart of the matter was that Facebook
got hacked, said officials from the internet guardog firm, Privacy International.
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