| One million Facebook users' names and email addresses: $5
Bogomil Shopov in the Czech Republic found these for sale.. |
Leosghost
msg:4514492 | 3:33 am on Nov 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Bogomil Shopov, an internet marketeer and blogger in the Czech Republic found an ad selling profile data of facebook members..$5.00 per million names and email addys..
| Shopov said he approached the social network about the problem. He said Facebook asked him to forward and then delete the data, which came in the form on a compressed spreadsheet. |
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| However, the Czech blogger said he objected to requests he says were made by the Facebook representatives to keep his conversations with with them about the matter a secret. |
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| Although internet services marketing site gigbucks.com has removed the offending ad, it can still be viewed via Google cache |
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:g6XmZOQin4gJ:gigbucks.com/Social-Marketing/26055/instantly-give-you-an-email-list-of-11-million-valid-Facebook-users-with-name-last&hl=en&gl=us&prmd=imvns&strip=1
"Likes" are also still for sale via various places..
| In other Facebook-related security news, Imperva warned that it had uncovered a bustling trade in social network fraud on an online black market it monitors. The 250,000-member hacker forum plays host to a thriving black market for buying and selling illegitimate social network "Likes", followers, and endorsements, with particular attention given to the origin of these Likes and followers. |
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Story .."el Reg" [theregister.co.uk...]
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lucy24
msg:4514501 | 4:51 am on Nov 1, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| He said Facebook asked him to forward and then delete the data, which came in the form on a compressed spreadsheet. |
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Does Facebook believe that the vendor sent our blogger their only copy of the data-- the negatives, as it were-- so if he deletes his copy, the data will cease to exist?
| The 250,000-member hacker forum |
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Next week, all other newspapers will report that the Register had a substantial sum riding on bets that they could push the phrase "hacker forum" into the top ten Google searches.
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