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100 Million Facebook Users’ Personal details Leaked Online

100 million Facebook users’ profiles were leaked online are now available for download.  By using a code, Ron Bowes  who is working as  an online security consultant, scans the Facebook profiles and collected data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings. The list includes the URL of every ’searchable’ Facebook user’s profile, their name and unique ID, is now available for download.

The list was downloaded by more than 1,000 users from the world’s biggest file-sharing website,Pirate Bay.

According to Bowes, he wants to point out  the privacy issues, so he published the data. But the data was already public, Facebook reported.

(Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10796584)

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