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August 5, 2010
Facebook logins are freely available on the net
87% offered access to accounts on the social network
John E Dunn, Techworld Thousands of Facebook logins are freely available on the internet, says BitDefender.
According to Sabina Datcu, a researcher at the security firm, a total of 250,000 user names, email addresses, and even passwords were uncovered by a deep trawl of the internet, 87 percent of which appeared to allow access to social networking accounts. A second pass showed that 75 percent of the data also worked for personal email accounts.
Datcu doesn't explain how the data was gathered, nor how many individual accounts the information would relate to, but she was able to discover most of the data from 'online collaboration tools', backed up with blogs, Torrents, and instances where users simply mention the details of third-parties.
Facebook logins are freely available on the net
87% offered access to accounts on the social network
John E Dunn, Techworld Thousands of Facebook logins are freely available on the internet, says BitDefender.
According to Sabina Datcu, a researcher at the security firm, a total of 250,000 user names, email addresses, and even passwords were uncovered by a deep trawl of the internet, 87 percent of which appeared to allow access to social networking accounts. A second pass showed that 75 percent of the data also worked for personal email accounts.
Datcu doesn't explain how the data was gathered, nor how many individual accounts the information would relate to, but she was able to discover most of the data from 'online collaboration tools', backed up with blogs, Torrents, and instances where users simply mention the details of third-parties.
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