100m Facebook users' personal info collected
29 Jul 2010 - 12 Aug 2010
A security consultant has collected the personal details of at least 100 million Facebook users by using a piece of code to scan and collect data not hidden by a user’s privacy settings.
The list consists of the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID.
In a statement to BBC News, Facebook said that the information in the list was already freely available online.
"People who use Facebook own their information and have the right to share only what they want, with whom they want, and when they want,"
"No private data is available or has been compromised,"
The information collected is already available by searching via search engines like Google, or by using the search feature within Facebook.