BBC News - Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published

Ron Bowes wrote some software which scanned through Facebook to capture any unprotected personal information from the website.

The collected data has been compiled in to a huge file which is available over BitTorrent among other free channels.

While the program did not access any protected information, it has exposed any and all users who have not taken the proper steps to restrict access to their Facebook accounts, either through error or lack of knowledge, awareness or prudence.

The fact that it has been captured and distributed also makes it impossible to ever effectively change or remove any of the collected information. It is out there in the wild and out of anyones hands or ability to corral or correct.

This link will download the big (2.79GB) compressed database for you right now using a BitTorrent client (it may break at some point).