Facebook directory - personal details for 100 million users

The torrent created by Ron Bowes that contains personal details snatched from facebook for millions. http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

lusifer69 (2010-07-28)

This is awesome and a little terrifying.

Porkster (2010-07-28)

I don't think this is a hack, but a collection from public domain info that people have shared. The importance of the info is structuring it and allowing someone to search or compute the data.

Porkster (2010-07-28)

It's the same as a phone book but without the addresses and the phone number. Just a big db of names.

khalids19 (2010-07-29)

are pics included?

jak322 (2010-07-29)

News of this torrent has hit the press and I've got to say, who cares. All the info here is already in the public domain, is not sensitive and as a developer I already have access to what could be deemed personal and private data through the Facebook API.

UVF (2010-07-29)

Just a list of names.
Lusifer, you're on BBC!

jak322 (2010-07-29)

Are comments being deleted?

atomicphr (2010-07-29)

I wonder what parity this collection has with just a basic Google search. Or indeed any national census. It's a nice collection, and efficiently done; but is it a privacy breach in any major sense? I don't think so. I'd call Openbook worse.

atomicphr (2010-07-29)

Stop deleting comments. It's free speech.

MEIN_FURY (2010-07-29)

Great stuff, just what the doctor ordered :D

xverdxse (2010-07-29)

UVF beat me to it, reading about this on BBC right now

physixmaster (2010-07-29)

Classic, some people are just idiots when it comes to security. Its not Facebooks fault but their own for not securing their data through the use of correct settings. You don't have to use Facebook and if you can't understand the settings, remove your account.

jb234 (2010-07-29)

i bet 90% of people downloading this wouldn't have known about it if bbc hadn't told them what it was and where to find it on their news article.
Good job BBC guys!

lusifer69 (2010-07-29)

Hoooray BBC :D
I hope people see this and look over their privacy settings now, still so many out there not locking down their profiles.

physixmaster (2010-07-29)

Yeah, now your famous Lucifer!

Darkforester67 (2010-07-29)

You are sick, only a loser would do such a thing you must live in a cave i hope you rot in hell

rippar86 (2010-07-29)

The significance of this collection of data is the fact that it demonstrates the fears the tech community has had for years about social networking sites publishing personal data on the internet. It's different to say a handwritten register of users since the digital data of millions can be recorded and parsed in a couple hours. As Porkster said the records were already public but no one has yet to gather all the data and order it in such a way that it becomes information, which this directory at least practically demonstrates the concept of.
If a botnet had run this data mining racket maybe it'd be possible to get the entire facebook community's data? At least those dumb enough to leave it on the default settings (which have shared more and more info to the public almost exponentially over the last 3 years).

PedoShooter (2010-07-29)

Wow, you just downloaded a website! You must be a real hacker! Now go out there and do something good...
http://thepiratebay.se/top/603

sejemaset (2010-07-29)

reminds me of the good old days when we would give addresses for people that posted phone numbers in chat rooms

ibc_rba (2010-07-29)

This is why people need to read the privacy agreements and everything they click through. I'm glad I left facebook. Do not blindly trust any website because of its popularity or without thinking.
IBC Chief Officer

pikkoloh_ (2010-07-29)

******
I think that this is really not so funny.
Not so many ppl wanna share everything with everybody. So do the world a favor, and dont download this.
This is just so wrong guys..
*******

hakz0 (2010-07-29)

c'mon y should i download this??
anyway its available on facebook n i can take it from there,thus saving bandwidth n disk Space..

moshster (2010-07-29)

There is no private data in this collection. Nothing that you couldn't access already using Facebook APIs. The BBC are scare mongering as usual with their technical ineptitude.

moshster (2010-07-29)

No private data in this collection. Nothing that you couldn't access already using Facebook APIs. The BBC are scare mongering as usual with their technical ineptitude.

ridge87701 (2010-07-29)

as jb234 correctly said, 90% people wouldn't even know about this if BBC hadn't made it popular. They're just making a big deal about it. All this data was already there, the real effort is in the collection, collation and structuring. That must have take some time! Good job anyway. Thanks Bowles and the uploader!

HeAwayWasRight (2010-07-29)

Nice one Facebook Trust You Too Do This Idiots! I Think Public Apology Is In Order!

HeAwayWasRight (2010-07-29)

Nice one Facebook Trust You Too Do This Idiots!

Zoara (2010-07-29)

Mark Zuckerburg said users are dumb fucks. Maybe this is why.
I can only presume this was done by 733t hackerz on steroidz.

 ChattChitto (2010-07-29)

Don't get so excited..
It's just gathered information, which anyone of you can grab from Facebook itself legally.
It's not in any kind a hack as some are assuming.
What you find here can be found on Facebook.
And accounts which privacy settings are set correctly you'll get 0 Information about them.
However it's interesting enough to see that a high number of people are interested in this subject.
I can predict and say one thing:
Fear from what the Future brings.

 ChattChitto (2010-07-29)

It Will Be Ugly, Hateful & Painful.

Gunnersglory (2010-07-29)

Get this torrent deleted,m now

ipxpxpip (2010-07-29)

If you're concerned about your "personal info", no one cares about you anyway so what does it matter?

thegirlslover (2010-07-29)

hey guys this is a software that is for fb hacking names !
screens:

deffiance (2010-07-29)

Well done you have a web crawling programme and you've harvested data which is publicly available. Do you want a medal?

deffiance (2010-07-29)

@thegirlslover
What's your point?

DJman (2010-07-29)

Does this contains photos also?

randomrat (2010-07-29)

Very very scary stuff, my personal info is in here!!!
No one thinks about how secure their data is when they join up to networking sites.

CalamityJames (2010-07-29)

@DJman
I would say a certain no.
If, for example, it contained just the profile picture of the 100 million users in there, and the average profile pic is about 15kb for the medium sized pic, that would be:
1,500,000,000 KB
= 1,464,843 MB
= 1,430 GB
= 1.39 TB
and would probably take about 43 days (based on an average download speed of 400KB/sec) to download!

usuck2010 (2010-07-29)

This is so stupid. All of the information here can be obtained on the Facebook site anyway.

mod10 (2010-07-29)

facebook sucks

wakanabi (2010-07-29)

So.... I'm guessing none of you paranoid freaks have heard of zabasearch.com or spokeo.com???? Not only is your info listed in phonebooks unless you are unlisted, but anyone can do pretty much a free background check on you if they want to. Not to mention reverse directories and info that banks and all your other accounts sell to people every day that you don't know about lol There's no such thing as privacy anymore, get used to it

PragueNHL (2010-07-29)

Hi, I have a problem with downloading and I don?t know why....
Are these contacts from facebook with emails or not?

Police08 (2010-07-29)

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a bunch of names. All the news outlets are playing this as a giant breach of security. I saw otherwise. Facebook is a "phonebook" of people. As you can have an unlisted number, you can also have an unlisted profile. Just be careful of what you post. I never understood why people post their phone number or address on their profile, then complain when it's leaked.

ralph2324 (2010-07-30)

this is L-E-G-E-N-wait for it-d-a-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-y

michelle0009 (2010-07-30)

Is there emails ID as well in it?

zeitgeistmandvdrip (2010-07-30)

this is rar files u need winrar to extract them then theyre text files but i found my quadcore pc had notepad freeze up trying to open one 278mb file...what alternatives to notepad are there to view this info ? and its just text yes ? so what are we supposed to be able to do with all this info ? how do we make use of it ?

zeitgeistmandvdrip (2010-07-30)

phatwarez or any1 else whats the nse file and how do we open it ?
whats the .rb file and how do we open it ?
even the read me wont open on my pc what software do i need to open it?
ps this 2.79 gb file becomes 16.3gb after you unrar it ! so youll need a bluray disk to archive it to

xenu678 (2010-07-30)

Do you have facebook?
Or does facebook have you?

CEPi (2010-07-30)

Filename Description

facebook.rb The script used to generate these files (v1)
facebook.nse The script that will be used for the second pass (v2)
facebook-urls The full URLs to every profile
facebook-names-original All names, including duplicates
facebook-names-unique All names, no duplicates
facebook-names-withcount All names, no duplicates but with a count
facebook-firstnames-withcount All first names (with count)
facebook-lastnames-withcount All last names (with count)
facebook-f.last-withcount All first initial last name (with count)
facebook-first.l-withcount All first name last initial (with count)

BarrySoetoro (2010-07-30)

I don't have Facebook.... never did mindlessly follow the pack. If I did though, I'd be bright enough to have some privacy settings.

acatas (2010-07-30)

Lusifer your famous. Damn, I would love to be on the BBC! This is a little scary, I'm glad I don't have a Facebook, but I feel for the people that do..

lusifer69 (2010-07-30)

Yeah I found my info in here as well. My privacy settings are totally open which is fine by me because I don't post anything there I don't mind the world knowing. I really hope people figure that out; if you don't want it to be seen don't post it.

rjwin (2010-07-30)

What is all the fuss about?
This is simply a list of names period. No personal data whatsoever.
Only thing it does show is how many times my name occurs and it's frankly no different from the result i get from searching on the Facebook site itself.
The media has nothing better to write about so have blown this out of proportion to try and sell more papers!!!

 SteRipper (2010-07-30)

I'm on Facebook. Thankfully, 100% of my personal info is 0% True.
*Downloads Torrent* :D

mr_owl123 (2010-07-30)

Why would you put this up on the internet in the first place? You are just making it easier for people to get into other peoples facebook accounts.

2443367 (2010-07-30)

I have a Facebook account and I'm pretty carefree when it comes to privacy, so I'm probably on here. Unlike most Facebook users, I'm smart enough not to post private things.
With that said, I'm gonna seed. :D

soul_eater131 (2010-07-30)

nice one dude!!!! your evrywhere. i just found out bout you two secs ago on yahoo

jr_mtz01 (2010-07-30)

whats is a bz2 file?? malware or its all good??

lusifer69 (2010-07-30)

Yeah bz2 files are just a type of compression. I believe if you are running windows 7zip can unpack the files for you. Opening a giant text file in windows though may be tickier; I'd suggest EditPad or Notepad++

sunk500 (2010-07-30)

I really don't see why this is a big deal or why people would want to download it. Although I agree it's pretty witty!

mr.janks (2010-07-30)

Editpad Pro & Notepad++didn't work... How can I open this damn thing???

mr.janks (2010-07-30)

Editpad Pro opens..

torrentsviejos (2010-07-30)

jr_mtz01:
lol, bz2 is decompression format linux

04phil (2010-07-30)

does "write comment" works ?

04phil (2010-07-30)

FRANKLY, these files present ABSOLUTELY NO IMPORTANCE ! 0% !
do not download, or you will be 150% disappointed

aiobhe (2010-07-30)

what is the freaking point of this? and why the hell are sooooo many people interested in downloading this? if it's all public information go to facebook and look these people up, you effing retards.

pux45 (2010-07-30)

still downloading but seems awesome!!! looking forward to it!!!

pux45 (2010-07-30)

hey licifer ur famous!!! hahaha i saw ur comment on da paper!!!

Mattytc (2010-07-31)

This makes for an interesting read...

pylopor (2010-07-31)

Okay so I just downloaded this and I'm pretty sure it has a Trojan in it. Because as soon as I unpacked it, my computer crashed and it fucked up for about 5 hours. (wouldn't let me run a scan in safe mode) So I think it's more than what it says -__- thanks a lot @Phatwarez for wasting my time.

swabbie59 (2010-07-31)

Naa, there's no trojan, It's just a bunch of -very-
large text files, that contain names. I don't see
what the big deal is...
Anyone here figured out what to view them with?
Like a database program, or something that will
sort them?

pylopor (2010-07-31)

@TheAnt317 I'm not an Idiot, mother fucker. I run a virus scan every fucking day, and until I downloaded this I didn't have a single fucking issue. By the way I said "I'm pretty sure" It doesn't mean it is, I was just saying I had in issue when I downloaded this.
Swabbie59, try wordpad. Instead of notepad

pylopor (2010-07-31)

Wow really delete my comment? Fuckin' n00b -__-
Swabbie59 Try Wordpad instead of Notepad. (just a thought)

pylopor (2010-07-31)

Sorry I apologize, I thought my comment had been deleted.

rolitomo (2010-07-31)

Hey I'm on a mac... how would I open the .nse of .rb file on that? Thanks.

 phatwarez (2010-07-31)

There are no trojans or malware. Scan to your hearts content.
If your having trouble opening the large text files, try using UltraEdit http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5493705/ or possibly Notepad++ http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5309965/
Or use Google. There are plenty of free and legal softwarez available on teh interwebz.

TechXpert (2010-07-31)

.nse is Nmap Scripting Engine & Nmap is avalable for Mac...........rb is Ruby script file......i still hav nt dwnloaded it bt guess dat its 4 doin da same ting wat Bowes did.....:-)....

TechXpert (2010-07-31)

in my context dis directory is no such "extraordinary" personal breach....its just a bot activity.............if u dun mind ur security...fb cant help ya.............moreovr dre r no viruses in it unless u consider those nmap nd ruby scrips as viruses :P..........

rolitomo (2010-07-31)

I downloaded nmap and it doesn't show up in applications, so I did a spotlight search, and it still wasn't there. Maybe I don't know how to run it.

pylopor (2010-07-31)

@bob_dole Thanks for your input, I'll admit I made an ass of myself. I need to create a backup I just never got around to it. As for what happened while Winzip was unpacking it, is beyond me. I walked away and came back (since it was a large file)
And sorry @phatwarez, I was just saying I didn't have an issue until I unpacked your files. They could be legit files but I don't wanna see what you have on me from Facebook anyway ;)

JonJonConFFFF (2010-07-31)

pylopor - if you dont know how to use a computer, dont bother posting comments

pylopor (2010-07-31)

Jonjonconffff- If you're going to be an asshole, don't bother wasting my time. I've got better things to do than read your insults to me over the internet. To name one I could take a shit.

mithanon (2010-07-31)

I registered just to say this:
pylopor: if you don't know how to open a large text file without crashing your computer (read: how to use a computer), then get the fuck off the internet
also, the script gathered the public URLs, which you can unlist yourself from at any time even if your profile is set to public. The media is full of shit

SizeM (2010-07-31)

so whats the bi eal..what does this show?

pylopor (2010-07-31)

And mithanon, I hope you get aids and die. :D

the_junkman (2010-07-31)

YOU FUCKING CUNT! YOU DIRTY SCAMMING BASTARD! THIS INFORMATION IS PRIVATE YOU SON OF A BITCH! I'D LIKE TO BEAT YOU TO PULP YOU COCKSUCKER!

jam6471 (2010-07-31)

You're famous dude
and the funny part is, Yahoo! explains what a torrent is and who are seeders 'n leechers

thepirateboy43 (2010-07-31)

you would have gotten ten of thousands of dollars by selling this to the highest bidder. Oh well.

demoness (2010-08-01)

@the_junkman HERP DERP - if you didn't set your profile to private, then no - it's not private information. Try again, retard.

badprenup (2010-08-01)

@pylopor
You talk about assholes wasting time, yet you are in an internet rage contest on a torrent's comment page. That being said my PC behaved a tad erratically upon loading this page or DL'ing the torrent, Chrome displayed that I had also downloaded a PHP file. After closing and reopening Chrome it works fine.
Just wanted to put it out there. Check wherever your you download to for a PHP file from the same time you downloaded the torrent. PHPs are mostly harmless but still worth a check.
And this looks interesting, lets see who isn't hiding their shit as well as they should be lol

maxfactor2050 (2010-08-01)

@raftingexpert78
Heil F?hrer
errr.. I meant Heil Hitler
err I meant Heil raftingexxxxxxpert78
Man!!! you are funny:)
Yes, I second that- LETS SHUT DOWN THIS THING CALLED
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maxfactor2050 (2010-08-01)

@CalamityJames: that some "quality" quick thinking!
:) IN TELLI GENT

maxfactor2050 (2010-08-01)

@pylopor
@Swabbie59-
talking about handling of databases by a fairly okay software (which has a small footprint)
you can also try "vTask"
and since this fora is about bonding between pirates, i dont need to tell where to get a unrestricted version
sorry about multiple posts people.. this ought to be the last!

maxfactor2050 (2010-08-01)

@pylopor
@Swabbie59-
talking about handling of databases by a fairly okay software (which has a small footprint)
you can also try "vTask"
and since this fora is about bonding between pirates, i dont need to tell where to get a unrestricted version
sorry about multiple posts people.. this ought to be the last!

TheSourMango (2010-08-01)

i do love the internet.

scuurrvy (2010-08-01)

hey, check this out, big biz dl'ing

plasmafox2038 (2010-08-01)

To anyone who doesn't like this torrent: This isn't a tenth of the information about users that they SELL to ADVERTISERS who have no interest in protecting it, and only want to use it to mass manipulate people into buying their products.
If you understand what that means then get out there and. Take. Them. Down. Get every friend you can to leave facebook. Talk about privacy issues and how social networking is used as a propaganda tool. Consider starting or joining a class action lawsuit against facebook's partners to force them to destroy the data and prove it- thereby driving those partners away.

DMNKLR (2010-08-02)

Let me put this simply and clearly to you fuck-whores who are and have downloading/ed this torrent: If any of my info is in there and it's used whatsoever, I personally will hunt down and slaughter you, ALL OF YOU, who participated in this, DO YOU FUCKING UNDERSTAND ME COCKSUCKERS?!! I WILL KILL YOU ALL!!!

cwgate (2010-08-02)

Facebook censored this! A bit late eh?

repeaterepeater (2010-08-02)

whoa! this is exactly why i am looking at autarchynow when it gets up and running. encrypted social networking is the future.

maxfactor2050 (2010-08-02)

@plasmafox2038
no offence to you in particular; nor am do I intend to offend you by getting personal.
hope you understand:)
But I fail to understand->
If a sane person who is FULLY aware of the risks of visiting a CSW (Commercial Sex Worker), has peno vaginal (or any other orifice) intercourse with such a person (man/woman/ transgender) ends up getting an STD (sexually transmitted disease).
NOW, if such a person/ customer puts it on the CSW for his disease, in your opinion is THAT the correct thing?
Facebook is in a certain "business" model.
(and so it a CSW)
Their primary objective usually would be "revenue".
Its "US" who ought to watch our back..
(cause I rarely know of a Sex Worker shouting at the top of their voice to warn us that STD's are in store for those who have unprotected (and sometimes even protected) physical contact with them)
Just my two pence. Hope you re-view the first paragraph that no offence to you.
@cyanidesandwich: much agree with every word @cyanidesandwich has put above.
God Bless and Keep Happy
~M~

jr_mtz01 (2010-08-02)

omg wtf is a .bz2 file!??!!? MALWARE??!?! someone tell me please...

FractalP (2010-08-02)

OMG YES jr_mtz01 ITS ALL A BIG VIRUS IT WIL KILL UR COMPUTER DONT DOWNLOAD IT OMGOMGOMG!!!!
Yeah... no. It's basically a compressed file, like .zip or .rar.

patista10 (2010-08-03)

what the heck do people do with this junk?

Ekiman (2010-08-04)

Some funny nerd rage comments here...btw why any1 need this file?

svenommel (2010-08-04)

so dumb to upload this how many haters u wanna get against pirate bay this could be a file that gone bring pirate bay down.
its already downloaded byApple
Church of Scientology
Disney
Goldman Sachs
Halliburton
Lockheed-Martin Corp
SONY CORPORATION
Sprint
USPS
Viacom
Click the jump for more companies.
A.C. Nielsen
Agilent Technologies
AT&T – Possible Macrovision
Baker & McKenzie
Bertelsmann Media
Boeing
Cisco Systems
Cox Enterprises
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deutsche Telekom
Duracell
Ernst & Young
Fujitsu
HBO & Company
Hilton Hospitality
Hitachi
HP
IBM
Intel
Intuit
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lucasfilm
Lucent
Lucent Technologies
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co
Mcafee
MetLife
Mitsubishi
Motorola
Northrop Grumman
Novell
Nvidia
O’Melveny & Myers
Oracle Corp
Pepsi Cola
Procter and Gamble
Random House
Raytheon
Road Runner RRWE
Seagate
Sega
Siemens AG
Sun Microsystems
Symantec
The Hague
Time Warner Telecom
Turner Broadcasting system
Ubisoft Entertainment
Unisys
United Nations
Univision
Vodafone
Wells Fargo
Xerox PARC
Companies list via Gawker
if u have facebook ur screwed now gone get so much mail

Lordmike3 (2010-08-05)

this is messed up

daaku89 (2010-08-05)

i hav downloaded this huge file.... hw to read this file. it comes wid bz2 and other formats

daaku89 (2010-08-05)

i hav downloaded this huge file... but how to open it

Hyout (2010-08-07)

Yeh, anyone know what I can use to open the larger files, nothing I've got opens anything above 500mb and one of the files is like 2 gb! :s

daaku89 (2010-08-08)

plzzzzz help me
how to open up this filez ?????????

KluPid0 (2010-08-16)

You realy think that 100 million users 2,79 Gib is?
hahahaha stupid XD

lostwallet (2010-08-22)

FUCK MIC SHIT STUPID SON OF A BITCH SHIT HORE nice upload lol

Toseefafzal (2010-08-29)

download complete i extract it
but in which program it will run

Bigjake52 (2010-08-29)

downloading just for the Lol'z
I have a facebook but only loged in once, I bet it has me in there

phound (2010-09-22)

Ron Bowes is the world's biggest moron. Who produces multi-gig text files? Ever think of breaking the database up into smaller text volumes? Way to fail, idiot.

yeah169 (2010-10-09)

you guys are idiots, just download a program to split the text files down to smaller sizes.
great upload!

sharloch (2010-10-09)

what can we use this personal details for.. just need to know.

haguey666 (2010-10-13)

Can you find out peoples passwords with this? Cheers.

Wi-Foo-er (2010-11-07)

Thanks for the upload. It hase so many uses :-)

coheedvscambria (2010-11-25)

WOW. I was hoping this wasn't real. Now I have to download it to make sure my info isn't in there. But then again... what could I do if it was..... nothing.

firhawk895 (2010-12-18)

This is nothing but a collection of the publicly available data from Facebook. Whatever information the users have chosen to keep public (available for access to the whole world) have been collected. It therefore does not breach any privacy, unless some dumb people keep sensitive information with "public" access in Facebook (lots of people like that lol)

piratefuk (2011-03-17)

I'm gonna have a look at this little beauty....thanks PHATZ peace out bra...

Phat-Tony (2011-07-25)

spose I better see what u got on me

gusco1959 (2012-01-22)

Thank You very much for this .
friends !!! You can view all this files by downloading LTFViewr5u software !!!!!

kybernoidis (2013-01-13)

Whiners about large text files can also use the unix utility bzcat with less or grep, without the need to decompress anything.

francy21 (2013-05-03)

avez-vous une salope appelé chantelled kiraz et avez-vous sandra migrovez, beaucoup d'entre eux ne sont que pures salopes

wizardsmagic008 (2013-11-22)

I found myself. 510482662 Haha