Detailed Data 100 Million Facebookers Download and Published

Would this be considered a serious threat in data security at Facebook? Recently the personal details of 100 million facebookers - the term for Facebook users - has been collected and published on the internet by an IT security consultant, Ron Bowles. He uses a code to scan a Facebook profile, collect data that is hidden by the owner's privacy settings.

The list, which has been divided into the public as a downloadable file. In that dafar terdapatURL every Facebook user profiles which can be searched, their names as well as its unique ID.

Bowles said he had not published the data for the purpose of attacking, but to highlight the issue of privacy. However, Facebook confirmed, all the data it nonetheless has become public information because the owner, according to their privacy settings, deliberately letting displayed.

Now the file has been spreading fast in the corners of cyberspace. On the Pirate Bay, the largest file sharing sites in the world, 100 million facebookers list was distributed and has been downloaded by more than 1000 users.

A confessed 'that appeared under the name lusifer69, described the list with the phrase' awesome and a little scary ". However, the defense pitched a statement quoted by the BBC, Thursday (29 / 7), Facebook states information in the list can be freely accessed online.

"People who use Facebook, have their own information and have the right to share only what they want, with the people they want and whenever they want," the statement said.

"In this case, the information that has been approved for publication have been collected by a researcher and spread on Google, Bing and other search engines also exist on Facebook. The statement also asserted," There is no private data that can be accessed or compromised, "

However, an observer from Privacy International, Simon Davis, a kind of example that the experiment mengetakan for Facebook warning that something like that, even worse can happen. "Facebook should anticipate this attack and make steps to prevent it," says Simon.

"It's very comforting to know a company hundreds of technicians circuitry can not imagine magnitude of this problem. Moreover appeared many opinions that said the attitude tends ignore Facebook," he added.

He also said that the data pengumpulk use privacy settings in Facebook are confusing. "People do not fully understand the privacy settings and this is the result," he said.

Earlier this year, appeared badari protests from the hassle of setting up the site user's privacy. In response, Facebook took out a more simplified privacy controls.

Facebook has privacy settings that make the public for some user information published and accessible. Facebookers also must make a conscious choice to keep or get rid of these general settings.