As I logged on to Yahoo this morning to check my email, this little ditty was displayed front and center on my homepage.
A security consultant, Ron Bowes, collected the names and profile URLs for 171 MILLION Facebook accounts (which is a little over a third of total Facebook users), then uploaded the data as a torrent file allowing anyone with a computer connection to download the data. This article provides Q&A for those who may be concerned about their privacy and security risks.
If you’re a Facebook user, does this make you nervous? Are you likely to alter your privacy settings as a result of this data mining?
