Major Corporations Downloading Facebook Profiles

A post yesterday on BitTorrent listed 100 million Facebook profiles. These are profiles that are open to public view, but this torrent neatly packages them for exploitation by any interested party. Hacker Ron Bowes from Skull Security created a crawler that pulled everything from Facebook's open access directory, essentially giving him all data that people had set to allow anyone to see.

Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested.