100 Million Facebook Profiles Hit the Torrents
And corporations are interested in all your public Facebook data.
Earlier this week, roughly 100 million Facebook accounts were bundled together in a 2.8GB package and put on the torrents for anyone to download. Mind you, the information contained in the package was just a result of a programmed spider crawling on open Facebook profiles mining anything that was public information.
Clint, a Gizmodo reader, used Peer Block to checked out who else was downloading the torrent file and matched the IP addresses to corporations. Turns out that businesses (or at least those who are working for those business and using BitTorrent at work) are quite interested in the information of 100 million Facebook users.
The list includes:
A.C. Nielsen
Agilent Technologies
Apple
AT&T - Possible Macrovision
Baker & McKenzie
BBC
Bertelsmann Media
Boeing
Church of Scientology
Cisco Systems
Cox Enterprises
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deutsche Telekom
Disney
Duracell
Ernst & Young
Fujitsu
Goldman Sachs
Halliburton
HBO & Company
Hilton Hospitality
Hitachi
HP
IBM
Intel
Intuit
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lockheed-Martin Corp
Lucasfilm
Lucent
Lucent Technologies
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
Mcafee
MetLife
Mitsubishi
Motorola
Northrop Grumman
Novell
Nvidia
O'Melveny & Myers
Oracle Corp
Pepsi Cola
Procter and Gamble
Random House
Raytheon
Road Runner RRWE
Seagate
Sega
Siemens AG
SONY CORPORATION
Sprint
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
The Hague
Time Warner Telecom
Turner Broadcasting system
Ubisoft Entertainment
Unisys
United Nations
Univision
USPS
Viacom
Vodafone
Wells Fargo
Xerox PARC
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So much for privacy on facebook.
no ulysses35
this only affects people that set there privacy settings to allow anybody to see everything
and some people like me dont care because we dont use our real names on it or private information for that we use txt or email as it is more secure
So much for privacy on facebook.
facebook and privacy are two words that should never be put together like that, it is an oxymoron
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What no AMD or Samsung? Could it be that some company's have etics? Or they didn't hear about the torrent yet!
Anyone who seriously thinks this makes one iota of difference to their actual real world personal security is living in cloud cuckoo land. All the info in these files and more is already shared/sold to other business's by everyone you do business with.
The software companies are themselves 'pirating' our information when they've got the chance to, how can they expect anything different from their customers?!