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October 26, 2012 06:31 pm GMT
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Blogger Buys 1.1 Million Facebook User Emails for $5
Bulgarian blogger Bogomil Shopov wrote Tuesday that he had purchased a spreadsheet containing 1.1 million Facebook user IDs and email addresses for $5. The data was allegedly scraped by third-party applications and offered for sale on a website called Gigbucks by a user named "mertem." Shopov verified that the emails did correspond to the Facebook user IDs, most of them private. He had even identified people he knew in the list. The next day, he was contacted by Facebook's Platform Policy Team.
"Hi Bogomil,
Wed like to set up a call with you to discuss a recent blog post of yours. Could you please provide a time and a phone number that works with your schedule?
Thanks,
P…
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