Data on 1 million Facebook users cost $ 5.

Bulgarian blogger, one of the activists of the Pirate Party, Bogomil Shopov (Bogomil Shopov) purchased an Excel workbook from an unnamed source on the site Gigbucks, which contains 1.1 million personal data of Facebook users - names, surnames and email addresses. Issue price was five US dollars.



Everything looked simple - I saw the lot and bought it. To make sure that the social network accounts are active and belong to living people, Shopov randomly checked several, and among them were found the accounts of his friends and acquaintances. At the same time, the site itself actually sold the collected information, because the description of the lot unambiguously read:

This list of users has been collected through our Facebook apps and consists only of active users, mostly from the US, Canada, UK and Europe.

At the same time, the seller of the lot assures that all data does not belong to robots, almost all English-speaking accounts are from the USA and Canada, so there is no need to worry about the quality.

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Curiously, the incident did not go unnoticed by Facebook itself. Representatives of the social network headquarters contacted Shopov, asked to provide them with data, delete them from the computer disk, then delete the entry itself from the blog, and promised to investigate the problem and take appropriate measures.



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[ Source , Forbes ]