July 30, 2010

All your Facebook are belong to us

"Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested... Here are the major companies that are downloading the torrent..."

2 Comments:

Blogger VMM said...

From the article:

"Just because a company is on the list, doesn't mean that it's a sanctioned download by the company itself to grab the user information for some purpose. It could easily just be some dude at the company who wanted to download the torrent himself to check it out."

July 31, 2010 at 2:23 PM  
Blogger The Front said...

Well, that's a relief.

July 31, 2010 at 9:20 PM  

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